BARTLEBY: THE NARRATOR’S UNBORN CHILD In Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” a scrivener named Bartleby disrupts the narrator’s tranquil lifestyle by means of mere passiveness. Bartleby leads a morbid existence and everything that he says or does is characteristically mild. Although Bartleby has the raw characteristics of a human being, his personality, actions and conversations suggest that he never truly lives. Examining Bartleby’s unborn nature more …showed first 75 words of 1622 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1622 total…the lives of many other Wall Street workers. “Bartleby the Scrivener” questions the values of those men and women working day in and day out in the financial hub of the United States and promotes a life of ambition and feeling rather than materialism and recognition. In this way, “Bartleby the Scrivener” is very much “A Story of Wall Street” because it exposes the faults of men and women caught up in their unfulfilling lives.