"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" Symbol

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: What do the "dead walls" and Bartleby's "dead wall reveries" represent?
What's the significance of the setting? Why is it a story
of "Wall Street"?
Why do Turkey and Nipper have nicknames, but the Boss is never named, and we never learn Bartleby's first name?
What's in a name?

The "dead walls" can represent Wall Street, which is the location of the office where the employees in the story work in. This can also represent the walls that keep people isolated from each other in society in that time period.  New businesses were the focus of that time, leaving little time for people to communicate with each other and build relationships with each other.  This brings us to Bartleby and his "dead wall reveries".  Bartleby sort of builds a wall up against him that keeps everyone out of his life.  He keeps to himself a lot and he isolates himself from everyone else in the office, including the Boss.  He now only becomes concerned with himself and his thoughts.  Building that wall before him results in him slipping away from the world. He wants to slip away from the world because he is tired of everything in it.  When slipping away, he loses interest in everything in reality.  This is why Bartleby always replies with "I would prefer not to" when asked to do something.  Instead, Bartleby would prefer to focus on his own thoughts and bring himself into his own little world.

The walls are also the reason for why Turkey and Nippers received their nicknames and for why the Boss and Bartleby never reveal their names.  Since these walls prevent people to communicate efficiently with each other, they can only refer to each other with names based on what they know about them. The narrator refers to one of his employees as Nippers and another one of his employees as Turkey.  The reason why is because the narrator does not have enough communication with them to call them by their actual names.  He only calls them by what he sees of them.  Ginger Nut, for example, is nicknamed Ginger Nut because he is always seen delivering ginger nut cakes to employees.  The Boss' name is never revealed for the same reason.  He is only known as the Boss, the one who is in charge of the law firm. This nickname emphasizes his role in the story.  Bartleby is the only character who has only one of his real names used.  His first name is never mentioned probably because the Boss focused more on his character than anyone else.  It could also be because his last name was all the Boss knew of him.  A name represents what or who we are most of the time.  This is shown in the story because, as I said before, the Boss refers to some of his employees with a named based on how he sees them.