![]() ![]() This instance supports the Melville’s argument about the dehumanizing effect of capitalism on workmen. It means that he has no other uses in the narrator’s point of view. He is described by the lawyer as “cake and apple purveyor” (Melville, 5). Ginger Nut is the important character here, because he is only used as a delivery boy. Nicknames that he put them also shows how he sees his workers as inhuman beings, removing a part of their human side with not calling them with proper names. This narrations helps the narrator to dehumanize them, because the lawyer only regards their capability of working, like working tools. He is putting nicknames to his employees and explains their in-office-manners. At the beginning of the story, the narrator begins with long describes of his characters. In Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville uses themes of isolation, capitalism and dehumanization in American workplaces through the lawyer’s employees’ desolations both mentally and physically. ![]()
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