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Why does the writer provide so little explicit information about Bartleby?
Posted by katie m #53179 at Feb 03, 2008 11:09 AM || Report this post || Reply

One of the themes of Bartleby the Scrivener is that in modern America we are all isolated in the corporate world.  Melville intentionally relays little information about Bartleby to isolate the reader from him.
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