Industrialization, factories

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Industrialization, factories

• --specialization
• --work-discipline
• --segregation of classes
• --separation of work/home

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Bartleby as employee

• Pallor, whiteness
• --racial considerations, minstrelsy
• --class considerations, refinement
• Narrator prudent
• Employees
• --Turkey florid
• --Nippers sallow
• --Ginger Nut 12 years old
• --Bartleby pale, motionless, mechanical

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Bartleby

• Surroundings
• --Wall Street
• --white wall
• --black wall
• --no view (129)
• --ground-glass folding doors
• --high green folding screen ( cubicle)

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Melvilles complex about art

• --copyist economically stable job, but
  unoriginal
• --audience rejects him he withdraws
• --Dead Letter Office

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Bartleby as Machine

• --always there
• --steady, industrious, passive, unemotional
• --excellent copyist
• --no outside life not reading, eating, speaking
  except to answer
• --prefer becomes contagious (signals
  inevitable trend)
• --I would prefer not to system error

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