Is “Bartleby, the Scrivener” really a story about living with mental illness, an

Is “Bartleby, the Scrivener” really a story about living with mental illness, and specifically clinical depression? Does Bartleby act like a clinically depressed person? Could the narrator be a representation of someone trying to understand a person around them who’s dealing with clinical depression? Or could Bartleby and the narrator represent two parts of a clinically depressed person – someone who is both experiencing it and trying to understand and lift themselves out of it? (For this topic, some research into the medical science of clinical depression could be helpful, as well as perhaps some research into Melville’s own historyYour essay must be at least 600 words in length, and reference at least two scholarly sources that you found in a research database (JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, etc). It must be properly MLA formatted, and include a Works Cited page. Remember that your Works Cited page DOES NOT count toward your minimum word count.