Category: Bartleby the Scrivener

Short story, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street is an iconic mystery in the English Literature industry. If one has read and is familiar with mystery than they would know that the solution is very far and few between a happy ending like one would hope for. Because of this, it only makes the…

Herman Melville was born New York City in 1819 and died in 1891. At the beginning of his life, he was living in a wealthy family, but after his fathers death, his life started to change when he was 20. He became a sailor in a whaling ship and he experienced the life of a…

When people get obsessed or curious about someone, they can do things that they would not be able to do it without being afraid of being judge by others or by themselves. Those individuals can make them change radically and leave a profound effect on them. In the short stories Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman…

Throughout Bartleby the Scrivener Melville introduces the reader to many male characters with interesting personalities and qualities. However, despite the masculinity portrayed throughout the narrative and the exclusion of women, there is a feminine presence that destroys the notion of a pure masculine world through the character Bartleby. Melville adds feminine attributes to Bartleby to…

Bartleby the Scrivener, written by Herman Melville explores the harsh reality of mentally unstable people in environments that are not conducive to their well-being. Bartleby shows what happens when someone with mental health issues has gone through a negative experience and then is forced into another because one cannot live without working. The story is…

While researching the background of Melvilles literature, the scrivener: Bartleby, we can touch the pathos that the brutal and stressful working environment makes employees undergo profound loneliness and anxiety in wall street. Considered in the middle 19th century, wall street was regarded as a yearning shortcut to richness full of greedy speculators, even though there…

There once was a small law practice office on Wall Street in New York City. In this office, an elderly man of about sixty years of age runs his small business with the help of several scriveners: Nippers, Ginger Nut, and Turkey. The scriveners are employed to write journal work and to help review the…

Bartleby the Scrivener, a narrative essay, written by Herman Melville is a complex story that can be seen from many different viewpoints. The narrator of the story, known as the lawyer, is the protagonist, who possesses an incessant urge to understand the world around him. He can be seen as a voice for the people…

Herman Melvilles short story, Bartleby and the Scrivener, has provided readers and critics with enough material to speculate upon Bartlebys condition and the message the writer intends to send through the peculiar character. Bartlebys unique character was so mysterious that it forced readers to look into the motives of the other major character, the narrator.…