This week's Melville's piece Bartleby, the Scrivener. We went over different characters that were involved and their characteristics described by the author. I think in this week reading the characters in Bartleby, like Turkey and Nipper where one is not able to work the other takes his place. Basically both function as guard for each other. As Nipper has stomach problems and Turkey has different shades over the day. This part of Nipper and Turkey seemed as a fairy tale but the names with characterization would have been better described such as some hunter in life of "turkey" that's why he had color of red. But the other character Ginger Nut function as puppet for Turkey and Nippers by bringing ginger cakes for them. And Bartleby is hard character to define as he seemed to enormously good but his particular and common response of refusing the order of lawyer. Whether Melville who is lawyer trying to say that Bartleby deserves managerial position in the office where he can order others. Bartleby refusal illustratesan idea that he is the one by himself, a special case in office which is slower. A strange character of Bartleby is demanding something before the life ends.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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