Comparing Barttleby, The Scrivener A Story Of Wall...

Do film versions of written words hold onto the original author’s message or do they give them an injustice? This research will look at the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street and compare it to Jonathan Parkers 2001 film version Bartleby. Herman Melville wrote the short story â€Å"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of wall street† in 1853, narrating a tale from a lawyer about his strange behaved office clerk Bartleby. In 2001 Johnathan Parker of Parker productions turned that story into a film, â€Å"Bartleby.† However, Jonathan Parker makes many changes from the classic original wrote by Herman Melville in 1853. Even though many differences in Jonathan Parkers film version of Bartleby have been found to change the†¦show more content†¦On the other hand, the music in the background of the film holds onto Herman Melville’s darkness. The characterization in the film â€Å"Bartleby,† by Jonathan Parker is different in comparison to that of the characters of Herman Melville’s short story. For example, Herman Melville’s narrator describes himself as a â€Å"rather elderly man† who is a lawyer (Meyers, 2017, pp. 126). However, in the film by Jonathan Parker, the narrator is a record keeper who appears to be in his early forties and is not as serious as the lawyer of Herman Melvilles version. However, the narrator is not the only characters that Jonathan Parker changes. The characters of the short story and film version are different people. For instance, Herman Melville writes about his two clerks and office boy. The first clerk the narrator nicknames Turkey, a short, pursy Englishman, of about my own age- that is, somewhere not far from sixty (Meyers, 2017, pp. 127). The narrator tells his listeners that Turkey is only working efficiently in the mornings, â€Å"I considered his business capacities as seriously disturbed for the remainder of the twenty-four hours† (Meyers, 2017, pp. 128). This description fits the vision of a senior man working at a law form part time. The next character introduced in Herman Melville’s short story is his other clerk Nippers, described as a â€Å"whiskered, sallow, and upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man, of about five and twenty† (Meyers, 2017, pp. 128).