“Bartleby, the Scrivener” is one of the Tales from the Piazza written by Herman Melville which was one of his greatest works which expresses the revolutionary beliefs of the author through a relationship between a narrator and his colleagues. The narrator is a successful lawyer who hires Bartleby. Soon after, Bartleby manages to drive the narrator crazy by doing absolutely nothing. In doing so, Melville introduces several important prompts for the reader to ponder. These prompts are presented to us and justified through Melville's symbolism. Melville's broad uses of symbolism strongly address three major statements to his audience: his critique of capitalism, his philosophical position on the value of life, and his reaction to his audience's comments. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” uses symbolism to criticize capitalism. “Bartleby the Scrivener” is “A Wall Street Story” and uses a building next to Wall Street as its setting. The building is described as a very depressing building, which "during the week hums with industry and life, at nightfall resonates with pure vacancy, and all through Sunday it is abandoned." Melville first attacks capitalism by symbolizing his characters as victims of the corporate world. First, it begins by showing the miserable but humorous lives of Turkey and Nippers. Both Turkey and Nippers have to work all day, but neither of them can fully function for the entire work day. Turkey works well in the morning, where "her face was a beautiful flowery shade." However, from noon until the end of the day, the turkey is exhausted after drinking where it “blazed like a grate full of Christmas embers; and continued to blaze – but, so to speak, with a gradual decline.” Nippers is the exact opposite. Nippers' bad behavior was: "my... middle of paper ... without writing fiction novels." The narrator is a symbol for Melville's readers, and poor Bartleby is a symbol for Melville. The narrator asks Bartleby to continue copying his work, but Bartleby has repeatedly stated that he "would rather not do it." Melville is opposed to writing more fiction because he does not want to devalue 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, very similar to Bartleby. The use of symbolism in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” illustrates Melville's main points. Melville achieves his goal of criticizing capitalism, 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 orator for Melville; A winner then.