Salinger’s Holden Caulfield quitting all that is “phony.” Joseph Heller’s creatively passive Captain John Yossarian, who signs his letters “Washington Irving,” and occasionally “Irving Washington,” in his own tribute to the visionary father of American letters. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man quitting the demands of both the white world and a too-narrow Black identity. Zora Neale Hurston’s quitting the glamorous Harlem Renaissance scene in favor of her native Florida. The recluse Emily Dickinson quietly quitting the strictures of feminine respectability. Henry David Thoreau, who retreats to Walden Pond. We could go on: Huck Finn lighting out for the territories. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off -then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” Ishmael’s amazing whaling voyage begins when, after so famously introducing himself, he explains the reasons he goes to sea: Bartleby’s mantra, “I would prefer not to,” is the clearest possible articulation of the quiet quitter’s credo. Sign up for our Weekly Headlines Newsletter.The Quiet Quitter Hall of Fame, if there were such a thing, would include many canonical American literary figures - among them, two of Herman Melville’s creations: “Bartleby the Scrivener” and the epic hero Ishmael, narrator of Moby-Dick. Stay on top of San Antonio news and views. Texas teacher fired after she told her class to call pedophiles 'minor attracted persons'
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