Abstract: Melvilles “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a short fiction with deep implications of modern ecology. The setting of the fiction, Wall Street, is a place with numerous high walls, where the working place is closed and depressive, and the nature of the work is mechanical and wearisome, thus presenting a picture of modern wasteland. Living in the world of walls on Wall Street as well as the spiritual walls created by himself, Bartleby has become a “lost lamb” with an illbalanced spiritual ecology. We must keep a good watch on our spiritual homeland if we are to maintain a harmonious unity between man and nature, man and society, man and himself in face of the great impacts of the modernist movement.

Key words: Melville, Bartleby, ecological implications, spiritual ecology

摘要： 麦尔维尔的《书记员巴特比》是一篇具有深刻现代生态内涵的小说。小说背景华尔街高楼林立，办公环境封闭压抑，工作单调沉闷，呈现出一幅自然生态与社会生态失衡的现代荒原图景。在华尔街现实之墙及其建造的精神之墙中，巴特比成为一个精神生态失衡的“迷途羔羊”。在现代化大潮的冲击中，要实现人与自然、人与社会、人与自我的和谐统一，必须守护好人类的精神家园。

关键词: 麦尔维尔, 巴特比, 生态内涵, 精神生态