Bartleby, the Scrivener is a story written by Herman Melville. In this story, the symbolic element that I choose was “the office”. Even though there were a couple of choices as far as symbols that could have been used I want to place my focus on “the office” because it has a wider range of significance in this story. The office is the main setting of the story Bartleby, the Scrivener”, it is where all of the interaction occurred. The denotative meaning of office is a place where a person(s) may conduct business, whether it is in a professional or personal manner. The connotative meaning in this story for the office is a place of shelter or a place of interaction. Bartleby was a loner, from reading the story there was no mention of any family or friends so when he obtained the position as the copyist he was now around people. Even though he may not have been a person that talked a lot, but just the mere fact of being around someone was, in my own opinion, what he wanted. bThe story of Bartleby, the Scrivener is narrated by an elderly lawyer who assisted wealthy men with property. The narrator was a kind-hearted man that did not know how to put his foot down when it came to his employees. His office already consisted of two other Scriveners, but the lawyer ended up hiring Bartleby in the hopes of trying to balance out things in his already unbalanced office spaced. In the beginning of his venture as the new copyist, Bartleby did his job. But on down the line, which is not too far down, he begins to gradually refuse to complete any of his assigned or asked of task. Eventually it got to a point that he just stopped working altogether and begins to refuse to leave, making the office his place of residence. Even when he was asked on several occasion to leave the premises, Bartleby still refused. The story goes on to let us know that the lawyer eventually gave up on trying to remove Bartleby, still being kind-hearted, and left th