The layer’s previous work in the Office of Dead Letters is aimed to hint at why his behavior is so strange, why there is a desire to separate from the surrounding world. The other symbol in the story, the dead letters, is as if explaining the scrivener’s strange behavior at the very end of the story. Bartleby separated himself from people, he did not communicate with anybody. The symbol of walls in the story is that all Bartlebys’ life was concentrated inside that room and that division from the whole society was present.
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The buildings on the streets were situated in such a way that most of the windows looked on the walls of the near building (Booth 164). Capitalism, and its effect on society, are shown through Wall Street and the citizens of this street. Wall Street is the symbol of the whole of New York’s life, when the atmosphere in offices is friendly, while the whole environment is isolative, if not hostile. Wall Street also symbolizes the development of capitalism in that society. The street, where Bartleby works are situated on Wall Street, which was the center of the business and financial life of New York when the story was written.
The core fact is that the word “wall” is of two meanings, direct and indirect. Considering the wall as the symbol in the story, it should be stressed that the other title of the story is “A Story of Wall-street” (Booth 164).
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