Question

Why is it significant that Melville set "Bartleby the Scrivener" on Wall Street? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

A. It was fast becoming the financial hub it is today and represents the shift towards modern, capitalist values. B. Bartleby downs his time in an office where the only window has a view of a brick wall.

Answer 2

If your chocies are the following:
Bartleby dies in a prison yard surrounded by high walls.
The narrator finds Bartleby's personal notebooks encased in a wall.
Bartleby spends his time in an office where the only window has a view of a brick wall.
It was fast becoming the financial hub it is today and represents the shift towards modern, capitalist values.


Then the answers are the following:
It is significant that Melville set "Bartleby the Scrivener" on Wall Street because Bartleby spends his time in an office where the only window has a view of a brick wall. He works in a corner by the folding doors behind a screen and has a window that "commanded at present no view at all."