The central argument of Naomi Reed's essay of "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street." is that, Bartleby represent the labor activism and rights of workers going on at the time. It was told that Bartleby is resisting against the circulation of buying and selling of goods in society, even at the cost of his life by refusing to buy food. Naomi Reed uses other scholar like Marx who explains the system of circulation and the relations of equivalents exchange. Marx goes on about how by refusing to participate in the equivalent exchange, Bartleby thinks that instead of equal exchange it is in truth unequal. Naomi Reed used this to show that Bartleby is fighting the circulation. In addition, when the lawyer tried to get Bartleby to leave
