According to Petri Liukkonen, Melville lost his fame and his readers, and was unable to support his family and had to depend on the wealth of his father-in-law. “In 1855, Melville suffered a nervous breakdown – he began to believe that he was not going to become famous through his writing.” (Petri Liukkonen, 4 years old) Melville was lost and didn't know how to recover from what had happened to him; That's what I said before he ran away and went on a trip to Europe. Melville gave up writing because it brought him no income; and this is how he found a job as a customs inspector, which gave him a regular income on which he could count unlike his