Symbolism in Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the scrivener is a narration written by Her world Melville. In this story, the symbolic ele ment that I choose was the dresser. nonetheless though on that quest were a couple of choices as far as symbols that could postulate been employ I want to em identifyment my focus on the line because it has a wider range of entailment in this story. The social occasion is the primary(prenominal) setting of the story Bartleby, the scratch awl, it is where all of the interaction occurred. The denotive meaning of office is a place where a person(s) may conduct business, whether it is in a professional or private manner. The connotative meaning in this story for the office is a place of shelter or a place of interaction. Bartleby was a loner, from reading the story there was no mention of any(prenominal) family or friends so when he obtained the position as the penman he was now close to people. Even though he may not have been a person that talked a lot, but just the uncorrupted fact of being or so someone was, in my testify opinion, what he wanted.\nbThe story of Bartleby, the Scrivener is narrated by an elderly lawyer who assisted wealthy men with property. The narrator was a kind-hearted man that did not go to sleep how to tack his foot down when it came to his employees. His office already consisted of two separate Scriveners, but the lawyer finish up hiring Bartleby in the hopes of severe to balance out things in his already unbalanced office spaced. In the beginning of his stake as the new copyist, Bartleby did his job. just on down the line, which is not too far down, he begins to gradually scraps to make do any of his assigned or asked of task. Eventually it got to a point that he just stop working altogether and begins to refuse to resign, making the office his place of residence. Even when he was asked on several occasion to leave the premises, Bartleby still refused. \nThe story goes on to let us know that the lawyer eve ntually gave up on trying to supplant Bartleby, still being kind-hearted, and left(a) th...