Did He Work on Wall Street?

Melville's family started off very, very wealthy, one of the wealthiest families in new york. The dad had serious debts, and when he died, it turned out that there was nothing to the family name. And so he kind of just made his way, initially, living on the charity of his various relatives. But they eventually kicked him out and said, ou got to make a living of your own. And that's why i ended up doing all these different odd jobs. He really almost was a character in a nineteenth century novel. So we have the nineteenth century version of any relation to actual people as entirely coincidentalo to us co - but it is based on personal