Characteristics Of Scrooge In A Christmas Carol

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In the novel A Christmas Carol the author Charles Dickens portrays a man by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge. In the novel Scrooge is a cold hearted man that is obsessed with his own earnings that blind him from seeing the caring aspect of life. Scrooge's transformation from cold, cruel miser to warm, charitable man is effected after his confrontations with the ghost of his former partner and three spirits: the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. When Scrooge returns from his "melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern," and he reaches his door, he is amazed to find that the knocker on the door resembles the face of his deceased partner of seven years, Marley. Somewhat unnerved, Scrooge passes through his rooms to assure himself that all is normal. Satisfied, he locks himself in; however, the spirit of Marley passes through his door, dragging a chain from around his waist. Terrorized, Scrooge feels that the specter's voice disturbs "the very marrow in his bones." He asks this ghost, "Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?" The ghost of Jacob Marley explains that...

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