Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman demonstrate in their writings that people are connected through experience. Through Melville's experience with Bartleby, Dickinson's experience with death and grief, and Whitman's ride on the Brooklyn ferry, they all show that people not only are connected, but have a need to relationships to have a functional society and a fruitful life. In Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," a lawyer's idea of ​​relationships is put to the test. As a single man, his disconnection from people is an obstacle he must overcome. The relationships between himself and his colleagues are simple and detached until Bartleby is introduced. The lawyer is perplexed by the singular behavior of this character and cannot help but take a particular interest in him. When Bartleby is asked to work, he simply says, "I would rather not do it," and when he stops working, he begins to stare at the wall (1112). This wall may symbolize the wall that the lawyer built to try to stave off relationships, or it may simply symbolize Wall Street. When the lawyer finds out Bartleby is there...