Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn(1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a Whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. And this experienced effects another great work, the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. navla frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White-Jacket (1850) describes this voyage as a navy seaman. With all his experience, he was popular with his own experienced style. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity starts to diminish. Moby Dick, the story of a great white whale, was a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of human against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's story from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel that served to fail Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today. But he did his other allegory work.
             "Bartleby the Scrivener". This story is about a strict and tolerant lawyer and his employees in his law office in Wall St, New York city. And it is very well known as the most difficult to interpret work among his every works and received most attention.
             In that story, there are five different characters. They are, Narrator who is a lawyer and elder man, Bartleby who is a scrivener, Nippers who is about twenty five years old, Turkey who is about sixty's, and Ginger Nut who is very young and an office boy. Each and every character has...