Wall Street represents the financial center of the United States, and is synonymous with high finance, corporate power, and wealth. Bartleby would not fit in here because he is a passive, passive-aggressively stubborn individual who lacks ambition, motivation, and the desire for material success. He does not conform to the competitive and cutthroat nature of the financial world, and his passive resistance to authority and refusal to engage in the conventional ways of Wall Street would make him an outsider in that environment.
