Ebenezer Scrooge Character Analysis

Ebenezer Scrooge, “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”, is a hyper virulent, misanthropic ancient moneygrubber. In addition to this, he is “secret and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”. His materialistic, cold-hearted, unsympathetic, uncharitable, Thomas Malthus- style makes him the “Old Scratch”. Furthermore, he despises his own nephew, who is the only family he has. This sort of rejection is labelled as unusual as it seems to make no sense at all. To find the roots of his hatred I have dug into his past to see if any events from his past have shaped him to be the “miser” he is today.
As I uncovered information about his past, it became much easier to comprehend why Scrooge is like he is. The shocking events of his past have clearly moulded him into the person he is at this present day. As “a

lonely boy” by a “feeble fire” at the school he used to attend. We discover that he is there due to the fact that his father will not let him come home for Christmas. He is later brought home by his sister, Fan, who is the mother of Fred. The fact that Ebenezer Scrooge and Fan were so close has led me to infer that Scrooge secludes himself from Fred because he is a heart-wrenching reminder of his sister, who he has lost. Fred is just the sad reminder to scrooge and is, therefore, ignored by and unloved by Scrooge.
Moreover, I found out that Belle, Scrooge’s former fiancé, distresses Scrooge because of the vision of her leaving him and this horrendous memory is amplified by the vision of Belle’s jovial family.

Scrooge commented on Belle and said “She left me because she thought that money was an idol to me and that I worshiped it like it was a god!” This is how Scrooge rephrased what Scrooge had told him when she called of their engagement. The heartache endured by Scrooge has played a huge factor to his bitter, self-secluding personality.
Scrooge’s unsocial and anti-charity actions are evidence of how Scrooge feels that everyone should fend for themselves and that there should be no support for the poor and needy as he believes that it is not his “business” to care about them. Furthermore, he feels as if he does enough work for the poor by paying taxes to support workhouses and prisons. He also believes that we must decrease the “surplus population” and, therefore, I strongly believe that Scrooge doesn’t view poor people as humans. This inhumane thought is driven by his negativity embedded in him by his traumatic experience sin the

past.
Overall, as a professional, I would advise Scrooge to take therapy a she is clearly emotionally scarred by the rejection and the losses he suffered in his youth. The past that Scrooge has had seems to imply that no one is born grim and ghastly and that even someone like Scrooge could have goodness inside of him. The past that Scrooge has had makes me feel that he would be a different man if he had a more positive and socialistic past.