Why did Herman Melville leave his teaching job in Pittsfield?

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Herman Melville did not leave his teaching job in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, because of any specific external conflict or dramatic event; rather, he simply found the position to be a source of unhappiness. After working as a teacher there for three months, he chose to return to Albany.1