Prof Schwortz
Eng 102
5/3/15
Essay #3 3rd Draft The author of
The Zoo Story and
Bartleby
, the Scriverner might have diagnos with the sense of isolation where in psychological term where one is characterized as a mental process involving unpleasant or threatening cognition and thoughts and feelings.
The story
The Zoo Story focuses on 2 grown men with sense of isolation, loneliness, social disparity and dehumanization. The main theme of
Bartleby, the Scriverner is isolation. From Edward Albee autobiography, Edward expresses isolation, loneliness, social disparity and dehumanization in the commercial world, Albee is portraying his traits by creating the character Jerry. Jerry faces same psychological behaviors for his role of the short story. Characters in both short story explores the same Social
Psychology Behaviors, without the proper diagnosis characters from both short story rid of their presence.
Melville, the author of the short story,
Bartleby the Scriverner illustrates Bartleby a mysterious character to the audience. One phrase that Bartleby uses is “I would prefer not” that makes a audience confused and find it mysterious why the author would use
Yu 2 that phrase rather than “I will not”. The author tells the reader to the smallest and efficient details why Bartleby is isolated from the world. In the passage “I placed his desk close up to a small side window in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy backyards, and bricks, but which, owing to in subsequent erections, commanded at present, no view at all, thought it gave some light. Within three feet of the panes was a wall, and the light came down far above, between two lofty buildings, as from a very small opening in a dom.” said the narrator (p56). The detail the author provided reader are able to imagine how entirely isolated Bartleby from the readers