Dehumanization In Bartleby

Melville’s Bartleby also talks about the uncomfortable conditions of the workplace that could show the dehumanization of the workers. For example, the lawyer’s office is located on the second floor, but the only things the workers can see out of the window are walls. These walls create a feeling that it is not important to the workers to have any contact with the outside world and that work should be the most important thing for them. However, ironically the lawyer himself realized that “this view might have been considered...deficient in what landscape painters call ‘life’”, (Melville 2) but obviously he did not care about how the landscape should look like outside his worker's office window because if he did care, he would have improved their