Suppression and Subversion through Walls in Bartleby the Scrivener Es

Suppression and Subversion through Walls in Bartleby the scribbler In Bartleby the Scrivener an elderly lawyer recounts the tenure of a scrivener, Bartleby, from his office. The advance of this employer/employee relationship depicts pullout between opposing social classes and its consequences. The presence of the furnish of Bartleby the Scrivener A Tale of Wall Street has been given untold consideration. The subtitle carries the baggage of the emerging capitalistic kitchen-gardening, but it also alludes to the working class that walls enable. Melville strategically subprograms architecture in his short story, Bartleby the Scrivener to demonstrate the disengagement between social classes that capitalism produces. In the story, the narrator, representative of the upper class, controls the existing physical partition separating him and the scriveners, representative of the lower class. In the same dash that he controls the sliding doors, the lawyer checks religion and economic factors to control the detachment between him and Bartleby. Architecture is also a part of Bartlebys picture he is always staring at a brick wall. Melville is acknowledging Bartlebys inability to grab the brick wall. Melville demonstrates in the relationship between Bartleby and the lawyer that the walls that each puts up are not without consequence, finally leading to the death of Bartleby. Whereas capitalistic culture constructs a sky-lit window of opportunity for the lawyer, Bartleby is bound to a vision of a brick wall. Melville also uses architecture to demonstrate the ways in which each address engages and disengages with the other. Ultimately, the architecture of the social classes that a capitalistic culture produces results ... ...r hand, Bartleby is unable to conquer the confines of the lawyer, but he does find a way to manipulate them in order to subvert the authority of the lawyer. The walls that the lawyer and the scrivener use disguise the bonds of common human ity that Melville is interested in uncovering. Because the lawyer handle the fraternal bond between them, he refused to recognize Bartleby as an individual, ultimately causing Bartlebys erasure, through starvation.Works CitedBarnett, Louise K. Bartleby as Alienated Worker. Studies in Short Fiction 6.4 (1974) 379-385. Print.Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. Chicago Henry Regnery, 1954. Print.Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener. Electronic Classics Series. Penn earth U, 2002. 1-45. 18 Nov. 2010. Wilson, James C. Bartleby The Walls of Wall Street. Arizona Quarterly 37.4 (1981) 335-346. Print.