He is very effective in the morning and becomes less and less so in the afternoon. His mood changes as sure as time would pass day after day. He is named turkey because when he is angry his neck would turn red almost resembles a turkey.

Turkey is a short and overweight English man around 60 years old. On a deeper level the lawyer may also hinted that they were insignificant figures, the leaver never even used their real names and their real names were never introduced, they were just a few of many scriveners in the lawyerвЂ™s memory. The names of Turkey, Ginger Nut and Nippers were hemolytic nicknames the characters had of each other, they fit their physical and personality characteristics. They were striped of the regular human emotions and were created merely as puppets to assist the delivery of other symbolic means. These four characters, flesh and bone in the body, but lacked the dynamics of round characters, they have been created with a very narrow set of attributes. In the law office there are four other characters other than the lawyer, the story narrator they were Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut and Bartlett. As a masterful writer of literature, Melville used symbolism to create the physical setting, the bleak and mundane law office environment. The Webster dictionary defined symbolism as вЂњthe art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations as artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or statesвЂќ (Hacker. Symbolism as a literary element has been widely used. The character of Bartlett represented the ultimate passive resistance to the onslaught of the wave that was sure to dominate the whole society.ДЇood and eating was the oil and grease that keep the motors and gears running, Bartlett refused to be part of the corporate machine, he hose complete isolation and maybe thatвЂ™s his version of freedom. TO survive, people at the time had to work like busy little bees serving as motors and gears in the mighty corporate business machines. Given the setting of the story was in the onset of the second industrial revolution, the coming of the big corporations where Wall Street was the center Of business activities. In the story three of the characters have names that are associated with food, and the main character of study, Bartlett, eventually dies of starvation by choice. How does the author successfully grab the attention of his readers? The author utilized his masterful command of the English language to convey the characters, setting, and plot effectively and in the midst of all the detailed descriptions Melville have used food and the action of eating as powerful symbols. вЂњBartlett, The Scrivener is a memorTABLE story, by Herman Melville, that is TABLE to keep its readers captivated from beginning to end.

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