This society creates a hierarchy, where American elitism is differentiated from working class people, who struggle 15 hours per day to earn their living.Īs far as the lawyer is concerned, his identity is separable from his business as a servicer of the rich. America of the north is turned into an urban society, which, apart from the increase in the population, creates new working conditions. Through the individual dead-ends of the five protagonists, we are going to throw light on the bleak picture of the American society of the 19th century.ĭuring the industrial revolution, the socio-economic and cultural conditions are profoundly affected. The fact that the protagonists, both the scriveners and the narrator, are “divided”, mentally and physically, by the socio-economic circumstances, gives us a clue about the mentality of the market economy in the American Society. Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-Street” is a dark romanticism story, the aim of which is to disrupt the myth of the American dream of success, and bring to the surface the fragmentation of the individual and the society.
The reality behind the myth of the American dream of success
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