With his dash of snark and his off - kilter good looks and his appealingly huggable vulnerability, his Bartleby Gaines is an anti-everyman hero, a literal freedom fighter railing
against the chains of
societal expectations that can drive even the best of us to succumb to one - note conventionality.
Instead, as one article sought to clarify, it derails the conversation and does nothing to question
societal norms and
expectations in regards to how violence
against women is normalized (Plait, 2014).