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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street

by Herman Melville

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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street

The author used the three characters to contrast Bartleby's character to show his uniqueness and it is also used to prove that Bartleby is not just an isolated case but a symbol of the general...

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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street

Nippers is a young, ambitious scrivener with a temperamental disposition, often irritable in the mornings due to indigestion, but more effective in the afternoons. His work habits contrast with...

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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street

Turkey and Nippers are a "good natural arrangement" because their ill tempers rotate on opposite schedules, so they are never difficult at the same time. When the narrator drops in to the office he...

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