In the story Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville shows the reader that everyone has different problems. The main one has to do with Bartleby. This is easy to tell if you pay attention to the actions of Bartleby throughout the book. In the book, Bartleby’s main problem was depression. You can tell that he gets depressed, especially when he goes through all of the horrible life events such as, becoming blind and losing his place to stay. In the book Bartleby the Scrivener, the narrator shows us that depression has different effects on different people. When people have obstacles thrown at them, they have to understand them before it overcomes them. They never know what’s going to happen until it happens and what they are going to do when it does happen. …show more content…
As he goes through life, he gets quieter and quieter. His esteem would get lower and lower with every passing day. Bartleby would always turn his back on all of the people that were there for him and when he needed them they would turn their backs on him because they thought that Bartleby didn’t need their help. Each day Bartleby would have to face different problems. When Bartleby was taken to the Hall of Justice, the narrator came and visited Bartleby and told Bartleby that he wasn’t the one that sent him here, even though Bartleby wouldn’t pay attention to him and he also wouldn’t eat. The narrator found him to be very short tempered and irritable, as if Bartleby was in his own