at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall" (895). As Bartleby looked out at the "dead brick wall" he saw his own solitude and severance from humankind. The office gives Bartleby a sense of security because it allows him to hide from the world he can't live in and the civilization he rejects. Gordon E. Bigelow clarifies the importance of the setting,
             The Wall Street setting must also be seen here as presence.
             Continuous symbolic notation of dead walls...creates a dark entity which makes itself felt as a sinister, engulfing, deathlike force. Wall Street is a place, but it is also people, and we come here to one pha
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