How Is Scrooge Presented In A Christmas Carol
In his novel, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens portrays Scrooge as the children of ignorance and want; these children are under the cloak of the Ghost of Christmas Present. "They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meager, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostate, too, in their humility… 'This boy is ignorance. This girl is want'" (49). Scrooge only wants money from his life; it is all he cares about. He is ignorant towards any unnecessary spending of the money. Lastly' he ignores his families attempt to socialize with him to make him more affable. On the first, Scrooge wants only his money as if he were the small boy. Scrooge knew he [Marley], was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I do not know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the
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He is saying that Christmas is a waste of money, and that the people who celebrate are poor. Along with that idea he decides that the poor spend money they do not have. This idea once again shows that all Scrooge cares about is money, and nothing else seems else seems to matter. Secondly, Scrooge is ignorant towards any spending that he sees ‘unnecessary’. The list that he sees as unnecessary is rather large. This includes giving money to a charity for the poor and coal for a fire, which warms his and his new assistant’s work place. “Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentle man, “a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all other, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down
He is saying that Christmas is a waste of money, and that the people who celebrate are poor. Along with that idea he decides that the poor spend money they do not have. This idea once again shows that all Scrooge cares about is money, and nothing else seems else seems to matter. Secondly, Scrooge is ignorant towards any spending that he sees ‘unnecessary’. The list that he sees as unnecessary is rather large. This includes giving money to a charity for the poor and coal for a fire, which warms his and his new assistant’s work place. “Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentle man, “a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all other, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down