Bartleby The Scrivener
In his analysis of Melville’s Bartleby Mr. Liao presents his view of Bartleby’s estrangement from society. Mr. Liao believes that Bartleby’s alienation was due solely to “society’s lack of tolerance for social deviance.” This is simply not the case. In the story Bartleby is not directly hindered by society’s unwillingness to accept, quite the contrary. The narrator/society makes every possible attempt to accommodate Bartleby’s peculiarities but Bartleby consistently chosen to rejects this assistance. Mr. Liao asserts that individuals not conforming to the “common mold” are removed forcibly. This statement is completely fallacious, and is guilty of an egregious error by omitting the Narrators repeated attempts to assist Bartleby, not by forcing him to conform but by allowing him to persist with what he
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