![]() ![]() At the beginning of the story, the title character is a scrivener, or law copyist, the mid-nineteenth-century equivalent of a human photocopying machine. ![]() Though this short work is best known simply as "Bartleby," its full title-"Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"-is significant. He poses the question: "Why would someone prefer the independence of homelessness to the meager security that society offers the homeless?" By asking and not answering this question, he offers a puzzling story unusually open to interpretation. In the 1853 story "Bartleby," Herman Melville anticipates the alienation theme so common in the works of contemporary American writers. BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER: A STORY OF WALLSTREET ![]()
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