Character Analysis Of Bartleby And The Wolf Of Wall Street

In the movie, the Wolf of Wall Street wall street is depicted as a lively work environment filled with promising work and big profit. The movie follows a man named Jordan through the exciting ups and downs of his career on Wall Street. Herman Melville paints an entirely different picture of wall street in his short story Bartleby, The Scrivener: A story of Wall Street. In Melville’s story, we follow Bartleby through a depressing career on wall street that eventually ends in his death. Herman Melville expresses his loathing of wall street in Bartleby, The Scrivener: A story of Wall Street as well as arguing that working on Wall Street is an awful job. Bartleby losing his vision represents a wall street worker becoming discontent with†¦show more content†¦From the way the narrator describes his own environment in a similar way, describing it as an upstairs chamber with two windows that show nothing. Colt’s environment seems equally as depressing as the Lawyer’s. Still, the lawyer is not driven to violence, when Bartleby is finally kicked out of the dim building he starts starving himself, presumably to kill himself. Melville is articulating that Wall Streets offices are places of death. Whether it is an employer exploiting another worker or an employee is drawn absolutely mad, the lifeless environment of Wall Street is a huge component of worker’s sadism against themselves or others. Melville is calling out of all wall street in this piece, not just certain offices, by generalizing his characters. Melville does not give the the lawyer a name and keeps all of the names of the Lawyer’s employees as nicknames like, â€Å"Nippers† and â€Å"Turkey†. The employees nicknames do not have anything to do with the work that they provide either. They are based on physical appearance or a specific behavior of each worker. Gingernut, another worker gets his nickname because Nippers and Turkey send him to get ginger nut cakes. The nicknames are based on insignificant things about the character so the nicknames must be significant too. Melville did not want to use real names because all names have some sort of meaning. So, to keep the employees