Indeed, part of "Bartleby's" enduring appeal" comes from its well-crafted ambiguity and denial of easy interpretation. ... Let us briefly examine one of the most influential interpretations of "Bartleby the Scrivener."" ... Unlike Melville's, Bartleby's resistance is entirely passive. ... Bartleby is described as eerily "mechanical"" and "inhuman." " Unlike Bartleby, Melville never became mentally or socially paralyzed. ... In "Bartleby the Scrivener,"" Melville explores similar philosophical issues in a different kind of setting. ...

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Bartleby .the slave owner? Although someone with the title of "lawyer- wouldn't normally be called a slave, the lawyer in Herman Melville's, Bartleby, is deserving of the label. ... What is strange about the relationship between the lawyer and Bartleby, his "master-, is that the lawyer is Bartleby's employer. ... However, he does seem rather affected by Bartleby's departure, as he concludes the story with "Ah, Bartleby! ... The literal interpretation would be that the lawyer feels bad for Bartleby and the life he had led working in a Dead Letter Office helping "letters s...

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The main character was Bartleby. ... This difference between the Melville's and Gansevoorts was the beginning of the trouble for the Melville family. ... This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. ... The style of Herman Melville is a very unusual one. ... Bartleby's story is an allegory of withdrawal suggesting more than one level of interpretation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. ... His short story, My Kinsman, Major Molineux accepts two allegorical interpretations, both of them connected with the idea of the quest for an identity. ... In Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville concentrates upon the pressures of the system, of the society in the act of shaping of a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate