![]() ![]() Explain what Bartleby's failed clerkship at the Dead Letter Office reveals about the theme of communication. Compare the office and the Tombs as settings.ĩ. In Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville demonstrates the detrimental issues of capitalism. Debate the source of impulses that keep the narrator involved with Bartleby's misfortunes.Ĩ. ![]() Flood's Party," Hazel Motes from Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, or Sherwood Anderson's grotesques in Winesburg, Ohio.ħ. Contrast Bartleby with other misfits from literature, such as Lenny Small in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Benjy in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, E. Illuminate the concept of Christian charity as it applies to the lawyer's underlying motivation and behavior.Ħ. Evaluate the role of these minor figures in the plot of "Bartleby": Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, the landlord, and the grub-man.ĥ. Explain how "Bartleby" reflects Melville's rebellion against the literary establishment.Ĥ. ![]() The Narrator decides to attempt the impossible: to befriend Bartleby. Analyze the controlling symbol of the wall in "Bartleby."ģ. It's pretty obvious that Bartleby deserves to be fired, but the Narrator decides that the odd scrivener is better off in his office with a sympathetic employer than working for someone else, who might throw him out into the streets. ![]() Explain why Melville ends "Bartleby" with "Ah, humanity!"Ģ. ![]()
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