Bartleby Scrivener

Herman Melville was born in New York in 1819, who believed in democracy and opposed slavery along with Walt Whitman. Melville’s experience was working unhappily as a copyist and errand boy in a bank, then became a sailor. New York’s Wall Street was going through difficulties on the financial center in the United States. Melville’s most fictional work was published, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. Bartleby can be seen as an alienated member of the working class, a white collar clerk only slightly higher on the social ladder than angry factory workers. The conflict in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, was that Bartleby, himself didn’t want to obey orders which he refused to do. He wished to fulfil what he desired on doing instead of obeying the Wall Street