Connection between `Bartleby the Scrivener` and Wall Street

The main char comeer, viz. Bartleby has been pictured by the author as a weird person who is also an outcast. He is an irresistibly dejected and friendless man, who seems absolutely not capable of finding work that will keep him happy. He does not even like living and life itself is very tiring for him.According to sources, the world in which the key section lives is that where a man works and earns till the time that he is dead. For a number of reasons he is considered an outcast. The person who he works for who remains unnamed in the story is a lawyer. He makes a number of attempts to connect with Bartleby exclusively fails.In some way, he is able to have compassion for the eccentric scrivener, but he just cannot or will not help him. Since the beginning of the book, the explanation of Bartleby is arresting. He is portrayed as a person who has already faced death, and is portrayed just the way a person would explain a dead body or as one would illustrate a ghost. pallid from indoors work, motionless, without any expression or evidence of human passion in him at all, he is a man already beaten. Even his famous statement of non-compliance, I would prefer not to, is an act of exhaustion rather than active defiance (About Bartleby the Scrivener, 1999).Going on, the author mentions Bartlebys fondness of staring at the groyne in front of his office. argue Street has been defined by the author as a lonely, mysterious landscape both totally not natural and hopelessly empty, which perhaps resembles the nature of Bartleby himself. As is say by the narrator of the story, Wall-street is a place that is deserted all the way through the day as well up as the night. It is just empty. The building where he lives too, which of week-days bustles with business and life, at dusk echoes with utter vacancy, and the Sundays are just despondent.This is the place which is chosen by Bartleby as his home solitary observer of a privateness which he has seen all heavily popu lateda genus of naive and malformed Marius menacing amid the carcass of Carthage I now recalled all the quiet mysteries which I had noted in the man. I remembered that he neer rung but to answer that though at intervals he had considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him readingno, not even a newspaper that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall (Melville, 2004).Bartleby has created his own safe heaven at Wall Street. He lives there all the time, perhaps trying to ignore the world and its conformities at all costs. Without the vindicatory wall, Bartleby would have to face the world outside, and Wall Street saves him from meeting the expectations of the entire society and joining a world where he could survive only if he became what the society would have made him. He must either do the accepted thing or die. Since Bartleby cannot be conventional, he has no other pickax but to die.As is said by review ers, the character under consideration is perhaps the most secluded character ever seen in literature. The environment that he lives in has cut him off from nature as well as from other human beings. By day, Bartlebys window stares at a wall. Wall Street is a bleak and unnatural landscape, and Bartleby also stays there at night, when the bustling human population vanishes and the streets incur desolately empty (About Bartleby the Scrivener, 1999). ConclusionIn the light of the above discussion we can hereby culminate that the connection amidst Bartleby and Wall Street is perhaps the loneliness and gloominess that they both share. Bibliography About Bartleby the Scrivener. (1999). Retrieved on December 19, 2006 from http//www. gradesaver. com/classicnotes/titles/bartleby/about. hypertext markup language Bartleby the Scrivener. (2008). Retrieved on December 19, 2006 from http//www. enotes. com/bartleby-scrivener Melville, Herman. (2004). Bartleby the Scrivener A story of Wall Street . United States of America. The Art of Novella. ISBN 0974607800