FAlse, I think ask for other opinions too
The setting in Melville’s “<em>Bartleby the Scrivener</em>” is a crucial element in the story. The extended title, “<em>A Story of Wall-Street</em>”, provides the specific setting as regards place. At that time, Wall Street had become an important financial center in America. As regards the year of publication, the work was first published in 1953 which was a time of rapid development in American economy.
The story takes place in a law office in Manhattan. The office presents an <u>unfriendly environment</u> that resembles the <u>business-based atmosphere of Wall Street</u>. The space is described as “<em>entirely unhallowed by humanizing domestic associations</em>” (p.36). In that way, the author describes the <u>impersonality of a business society</u>. In this context, the author does not provide the reader with any information about the characters apart from their particular behavior in the office. Also, the word “walls” is repeated many times throughout the story and they refer to the barriers between employer and employee.
A. She feels that Jennie wants the narrator child for herself
The effect of these words or first the meaning is that the author, Sojourner Truth an ex slave is obliged to those who listened to her speech and is concluding her speech and has stated that while white women may be oppressed too their oppression is still not as much as black women have suffered with the added oppression of slavery. She also states that she can work just as hard as a man so deserves to have equal rights.
