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Bartleby, the Scrivener (1)
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Refer to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

A contemporary view of Wall Street

"My chambers were up the stairs at No.--Wall Street."

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Two prominant 19th-century American families portrayed in "Conversation Piece" portraits:

The kind of families served by the narrator of "Bartleby"

The Belmonts

The Hatches

"I am one of those unambitious lawyers who ...do a snug business among rich men's bonds and

mortgages and deeds....The late John Jacob Astor....had no hesitation in pronouncing my first

grand point to be prudence....I [was employed] by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I

admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto

bullion...."

The narrator, "Bartleby the Scrivener"

What do these paintings reveal about the "rich men" the narrator serves, and what do they thereby reveal about the narrator?

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