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The Effects of Depression as Portrayed in "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville

In this analysis of "Bartleby, the Scrivener," the student draws parallels between Bartleby's behavior, dialogue, and ultimate fate and clinical depression's effects on an individual's quality of life, daily existence, and actions.
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Bridget's feedback:

"I appreciate the empathy you bring to this reading of the character and story. You are of to a good start in engaging with the text and getting your analysis down on the page.

A few tasks to attend to will include incorporating the quotations into the text to evoke control over the source material, establishing ethos; streamlining the discussion by eliminating repeated information and redundancies, and the related project of "remembering" earlier moments of the discussion (such as when you write that Bartleby had a figurative wall around him some time after you discuss an actual wall in earlier scenes--because this goes unmentioned, no connection is drawn, missing an opportunity to remark on Melville's use of device and affirm the reader's comprehension); and considering organization, including efficiency of presentation and what order to provide information. As regards the latter, for example, I notice you open with the information about the dead letter office, suggestive of an "origin story." Keeping in mind that Melville presents that fact at the end of the story and the manner in which he does so via the narrator, I'm curious if this detail should be presented as such an explicit cause-effect without any other commentary or analysis.

I'd like to check in on your brief claim that Bartleby felt passed over for recognition (second-to-last paragraph). Provide your evidence from the text to back this up, as it makes a wider claim about the world around him and the other characters' culpability."

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