"Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "The Birthmark"

I thought both short stories had many similarities.  Both stories were in chronological structure.  This makes sense because in Bartleby you learn why he isn't doing any of the tasks the lawyer asks him to.  In "The Birthmark", it wouldn't make sense to start out with the scientist's wife dying, there would be no point to the story since the climax of the story was already given.  In contrast, everything in "The Birthmark" was pretty black and white.  Once the story ended, there wasn't any questions as to why something happened.  But in "Bartleby, the Scrivener", it doesn't flat out state whether Bartleby died or not.  What I learned from both of the stories is that they both ended dramatically.  Bartleby ends up in jail because he won't leave the workplace even though he doesn't even work there anymore.  In "The Birthmark", the wife ends up dying because her husband trys to make her perfect.  Bartleby never really had a great life in the first place, but once he got to the Tomb there wasn't any hope for him.  So I think both short stories had a dark ending.