![]() The narrator of this story does everything any of us would do, and more, to try to solve the problem of this man he has employed who will no longer work. But he can’t protest because he’s actually become too traumatized and frozen by what life has brought him so far.Īnd so he becomes instead a fixture in the office, a burden, a constant moral reminder of all that’s wrong in the world, a symbol of a world turning people into human copy machines. ![]() ![]() An employer of a man who at a certain point decides he just doesn’t want to be a copy machine any more. And in this story, Melville follows the benign, kindly reflections of an employer. In a story called Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street, Melville gives us a portrait of a copyist – a thin, efficient, anonymous figure named Bartleby, who is in a sense a human photocopy machine. In fact, the more profound Melville gets, the more elusive the solutions he arrives at. That’s not to say that he offers easy solutions. ![]()
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