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Ebenezer Scrooge (What he do? (First presented as a miserly, unpleasant…
Ebenezer Scrooge
What he do?
First presented as a miserly, unpleasant man
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Each of the Ghosts show him a scene that strikes fear and regret into his heart and eventually he softens
By the end of the story, Scrooge is a changed man, sharing his wealth and generosity with everyone
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Cold-hearted
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No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him
Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooge's nature. The weather is a metaphor for Scrooge's behavior - he cannot be made either warmer or colder by it
Miserly
Scrooge is stingy with money and will not even allow Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve
...as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part
The indirect speech shows that Scrooge is threatening and in charge. He will not give permission for Cratchit to take more coal
Ill-mannered
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"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
Scrooge's response is comical, but unpleasant. He cannot accept the generosity and instead turns images of Christmas into images of violence
Self-deluded
When he sees Marley's ghost, Scrooge tries to deny its existence by attributing it to something he has eaten
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese..."
Although Scrooge is afraid of the ghost, he tries to maintain his authority even over his own senses