Significance of food and wall tropes in Herman Melville's "Bartleby".

Reading Herman Melville's "Bartleby" for the first time, one must wonder whether Bartleby, seemingly the main character, is insane. At this point readers try to assign a proper type of psychiatric disorder to him. During the second reading, the author's commitment to certain objects, such as walls and food in any representation, and specific feelings, such as sadness, solitude, melancholy, seems strange. When I read this novella for the third time, it dawned on me: …

…lives dull and brought their souls close to death, and so Bartleby died facing the wall, the moral dead-end. But whereas Bartleby finally dies, his sad being appears to salvage the lawyer and his soul: the whole experience with Bartleby made him move out from the Wall Street, which gives him and readers a little hope. Works Cited: Melville, Herman. "Bartleby". Bartleby and Benito Cereno. Dover Publications, Inc., <Tab/>New York.