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Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall Street

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Herman Melville’s story of, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” is a very different kind of fiction than what we are accustomed to when thinking about bout what Melville has produced. Titles that come to mind are Moby Dick and Billy Budd, both great sea-faring tales, and yet the setting for this story is much different from the ocean. Ever since Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” was published in 1853, it has been interpreted in so many ways. It is a profoundly American story which is set on Wall-Street in New York City. It is a tale of defiance, choice, and the freedom to “not do” even in a world of capitalism. This idea is one of the fundamental elements of the story while the main character,
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