Literary scholars have been analyzing Bartleby the Scrivener ever since Putnams Monthly Magazine published the story in its November and December 1853 issues. And they psychoanalyze Melville the author as well, for he either purely imagined and created Bartlebyor maybe lifted him from a newspaper article he had reador composited certain teachings of Jesus Christ into a Bartleby personor symbolized his own emotional reaction to the departure of neighbor, mentor and dear friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had recently moved away. Theories have continued to proliferate in literary circles about the origin(s) and constitution of Bartleby, but none have risen above theory, leaving everyday readers free to reflect on the Bartleby puzzle and decide for ourselves just what this amazing character represents, or even, if we are so inclined, to research Melville and guess how Bartleby came to be.Here are two clues. First, the story originally came with and sometimes still carriesa subtitle A Story of Wall Street. Second, when Herman Melville went to work on Bartleby, he was in a bad state of mind. Despite enjoying early success as an author, his masterpiece, Moby Dick, had flopped in 1851. Many critics, mainly American, did not like it, and not many readers anywhere were buying it. His follow up novel, Pierre, fared even worse in both ways. Melvilles future as a financially secure writer was thus in jeopardy, and family members were pressuring him to do better or find a new occupation....

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