Explain the significance of the text’s subtitle, “A Story of Wall Street”?
The text of Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is given a subtitle whose significance most readers will miss. When you look first at the title, you could suppose that the author included the subtitle to enlighten readers about the setting of the short story. Although this is one of the reasons behind the subtitle, there is much more to it than meets the eye. The subtitle uses the cost of going up capitalist culture, but it also speaks to the detention that walls provide.
