Cultural Intolerance of Depression in Bartleby, The Scrivener Herman Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street presents the intellectually pained title character through the point of view of an oblivious storyteller. Having just experienced obvious, physical incapacities previously, the storyteller doesn't have the foggiest idea how to react to a man with sadness. Made distraught by Bartleby's favored expression, I would incline toward not to (Melville 8), the storyteller neglects to perceive this expression as what Mitchell and Snyder's Narrative Prosthesis could name as an inner mind weep for help, and rather attempts weak endeavors at restoring Bartleby. When these come up short, the storyteller vacillates among pity and bigotry, never genuinely understanding Bartleby's condition, and possibly pleasing him when trusting him to have a physical incapacity.
