... perverseness-, and in the latter, through the character of Fortunato, a double of the narrator, whom he symbolically tries to murder. The repression of these unconscious desires seems futile, while accepting one's identity through coping with them is ultimately inevitable, as the narrators confess is through the act of creation of narrated text. In Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville concentrates upon the pressures of the system, of the society in the act of shaping ... of an identity. The story unfolds on Wall Street, in New York City, that is in the world of modern economy, with ...

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