ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nippers, Simile
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Wall street: want to make it feel like it"s part of the real world. First person past tense point of view. Dry sense of humor/sarcasm: we call, life . Cistern well/receptacle for water: sort of a simile, but not quite. Lurking beauties oxymoronic: lurking (being hidden) vs. beauty (aesthetically pleasing) The word life in quotation marks: does not agree with what others view as life. Representative of capitalism: turkey, nippers, gingernut. Romantics have anxiety about machinery: he says no to work; is no longer a machine. Compares work to eating/consuming: relates this back to capitalism. Bartleby dies because he starves himself to death.
