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Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

Melville, Herman

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Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1533411549
ISBN13: 9781533411549
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: May 23 2016
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Bartleby the Scrivener explores the theme of isolation in American life and the workplace through actual physical loneliness and mental loneliness. Although all of the characters at the office are related by being co-workers, Bartleby is the only one whose name is known to us and seems serious, as the rest of characters have odd nicknames, such as Nippers or Turkey, this excludes his from being normal in the workplace. Bartleby's former job was at the Dead Letter Office that received mail with nowhere to go, representing the isolation of communication that Bartleby had at both places of work, being that he was given a separate work area for himself at the lawyer's office. Bartleby never leaves the office, but repeats what he does all day long, copying, staring, and repeating his famous words of I would prefer not to, leading readers to have another image of the repetition that leads to isolation on Wall Street and the American workplace.

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