...overpowering Btinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me...gala trim, swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadwav ; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist. and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts...

...Melville also used the metaphor in "Bartleby" to contrast the populous crowd with the solitary scrivener: "I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces...swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway."' The Confidence-Man is not only about New York. The novel is a national panorama that makes satiric...

...which drew him "irresistibly to gloom" (23). Again, he insists on the exclusive maleness of the bond: "A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam" (22). There are four separate mentionings of Adam in "Bartleby, the Scrivener," but nary an Eve to...

...overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal mel ancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling...

...overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me...melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. ^fe DVD In the shooting script of the film, the scene is without dialogue. (See the DVD.) EXT . STREET...

...which complete separation from the demands and supplies of the world is attained" (145). 5. Remembering "the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that...swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway" — a vision of wealth and style testifying to capitalistic success — the narrator expresses his...

...Zeitung, „walls") nutzt, die die Stadt widerspiegeln und sie somit erfahrbar macht : 2.1.1 Der Broadway „I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces...swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway [...]"3 Der Broadway wird wochentags als Mississippi beschrieben, als einen Strom der nicht hektisch...