Bartleby, The Failure
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It is not rare, sometimes it is even common, that an author speaks about his or
her self in their works. Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is often
considered such a story. Many of the characters in the story and images created
allude to Melville's writing career, which was generally de ....
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.... Bartleby is in prison, he wastes away
without abruptly dying, a degeneration until the point no one notices his
absence. Melville had reached the prime of his popularity early in his career,
so when he published Moby Dick, his career was already in decline. His
disappointment was only to increase as his career diminished until his death
which was hardly noticed in the literary community. The narrator also resembles
Melville, but in a different way. Melville uses the narrator to view his o ....
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