“Bartleby, the Scrivener” is one of the Tales of the Square written by Herman Melville, one of his greatest works that expresses the author's revolutionary beliefs through a relationship between a narrator and his collaborators. The narrator is a successful lawyer who hires Bartleby. Shortly thereafter, Bartleby manages to drive the narrator crazy by doing absolutely nothing. In this way, Melville introduces several important suggestions for the reader to reflect on. These suggestions are introduced and justified to us through Melville's symbolism. Melville's great uses of symbolism forcefully address three major contentions to his audience: his critique against capitalism, his philosophical stance on the value of life, and his reaction to feedback from his audience. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" uses symbolism to criticize capitalism. “Bartleby the Scrivener” is “A Story of Wall Street” and uses a building near Wall Street as the setting. The building is described as a very depressing building, which, "on weekdays teems with industry and life, at nightfall echoes with utter emptiness, and throughout Sunday is desolate." Melville first attacks capitalism by symbolizing his characters as victims of the corporate world. It first starts by showing the miserable but funny lives of Turkey and Nippers. Both Turkey and Nippers have to work the entire day, but neither can fully operate the entire work day. Turkey works well in the morning, where “his face was a beautiful florid color.” However, from noon to the end of the day, Turkey is exhausted after drinking where he “burned like a grill full of Christmas coals; and it continued to blaze, but, so to speak, with a gradual fading.” Nippers is the exact opposite. Nippers' bad behavior was: “but… middle of paper… without writing fiction novels. The narrator is a symbol to Melville's readers, and poor Bartleby is a symbol to Melville. The narrator asks Bartleby to continue copying his work, but Bartleby has stated numerous times that he "would rather not." Melville is against writing more fiction because he did not want to diminish the means of his fiction. Ultimately, none of Melville's works after “Moby Dick” became popular and he ended up dying in poverty and obscurity, much like Bartleby. The use of symbolism in “Bartleby, the Scribe” shows Melville's main arguments. Melville achieves his goal of criticizing capitalism by showing the value of human life and refusing to listen to his readers, which could have made him a less renowned author. Bartleby was symbolized as a political hero, an important figure and an orator for Melville; A winner, then.