Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street | Multiple Meanings and Interpretations
In the essay, Elliott examines the multiple meanings and interpretations that can be applied to the title character of "Bartelby the Scrivener."
Almost one hundred and fifty years since it was first published, Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" remains one of the most elusive short stories in all of American literature. What is the reason for Bartleby's strange behavior in the story? This is the question that plagues the story's narrator, and it has plagued the readers of "Bartleby the Scrivener" as well. While many intriguing hypotheses have been offered over the years, no single interpretation dominates critical opinion or seems to ber issue of 1853. It was republished three years later in Melville's collection of short...
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