'the chain he drew was clasped about his middle …. made of cash-boxes, keys, ledgers, padlocks, deeds, and heavy purses. This liks to how Disckens dad was in prison for debt as a young bopyu and now Marley is in erternal prison for the opposite, also showing that these are the thing binding him to the horrible punishment and directly shows the relation between his action in real life and now in the afterlife. Emphasizing Dickens intentions of attempting to scare the middle-upper class into changing there ways as many would believe in the after life and be scared of this.