Dialogue Essay: Scrooge Opened The Door

Scrooge returns to the home of Jacob Marley, where Marley’s ghost tells him that he is going to have three ghosts visit him in the near future. The ghosts will give Scrooge an opportunity to reform himself. The text explicitly states that Scrooge was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone. Moreover, he was a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, matured sinner! Accordingly, his self-contained personality made him solitary as an oyster. In the text, it states, that Scrooge did not want to donate money to the poor since he could better use the money for himself. Scrooge declined to even to let his clerk have a day off for Christmas! The text explicitly said “it was a day that his clerk was allowed to rob him!” Scrooge finally agreed to let him have the day off with half pay. Scrooge’s catchphrase was “Bah!Humbug!’’.

Scrooge keeps the coal-box in his own room so the clerk is not able to

The text explicitly states Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner has passed away. According to the text, he despises many things such as happiness, humor, and even Christmas. From the reading, I know that he is depressed all the time, consequently his mental state has led him to call other people stupid, dumb, and idiots. On page three, in the conversation with his nephew Fred, Scrooge insults his nephew about marrying and loving his wife. The text states, that he also “seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the frost and even more congenial frost.” From the reading I know that Scrooge isn’t a people person and is very down about life. Based on the text he doesn’t really like being around them. For example Scrooge didn’t donate any money to the poor, and blew off his nephew about spending Christmas with them. In the text it states that there is no wind as bare as Scrooge, this means he doesn't really care or doesn't have many feelings.

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel; I am as merry

Scrooge was cruel and heartless and did not allow others to celebrate Christmas. He said, “A poor excuse to pick a man's pocket every twenty-fifth December!" He was extremely insensitive and cold-hearted he became furious when his clerk asks him for a day off on Christmas Day. He ignored his nephew when he said, "Merry Christmas Uncle" As this demonstrated he wanted everyone to be miserable at Christmas and did not allow his clerk and nephew to celebrate Christmas in the traditional way by being merry and enjoying Christmas. Bob Cratchit was probably on low wages because Scrooge was tight with his money.

‘’The cold within him froze his old features. ’’ I believe that this description shows that Scrooge is unbelievably cold-hearted, even unrealistically so: ‘’No wind blew bitterer than he, no falling snow more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him.’’ This description displays that not even the weather has an effect on him, it is also apparent that Scrooge’s personality was worse than any weather, he was bitterer than any blizzard colder than any rainfall.

Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.

money to the poor. He thinks of them as idle and he states that if

This week London has lost one of its finest, Ebenezer Scrooge. Aged 65 sadly passed away after a long hard battle with cancer on Wednesday, 20th of August 1856 at the Royal London Hospital alongside his nephew, Fred, and loyal house worker, Mrs. Dibler.

Remuneration can lead to hostility in social groups. The Gift of the Magi, written by O. Henry, has a synopsis of two people who willingly devote their hard-earned money for each other, although they hanker for a renovated lifestyle. They are a bit morose when dealing with their living situation. On the other hand, A Christmas Carol, scribed by Charles Dickens, tells a story of an affluent man who indulges in downright unsuccessful behavior towards humans and, after an abundance of procuration, is goaded by three spirits to culminate his narcissism. People treat others miscellaneously based on wage as evinced by their contrasting outlooks on the world, conversiality of sacrificial choices, and relationships toward others.

The passing of Ebenezer Scrooge, wasn’t as upsetting as most passings. The common things people have done in his village is talk about him. Accordingly, to the passage, they would say he was mean, bitter, moreover tight-fisted. No one cares that he had died, because they took all his possessions, But the worst of all, people Mrs.Dilber, Joe, and one other woman. They would say nasty about him, here are some examples.

In this extract Dickens begins with an exclamatory sentence. The exclamation ‘Oh!’ tells the reader that the writer is shocked by what he is about to say. This is how he starts his diatribe of defining Scrooge’s demeanour, with intent to surprise the reader. The exclamation mark draws the reader’s attention to the description that follows.

In stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens convey's the character of Scrooge by presenting him in many different scenes. At first glance, the reader sees him as a cruel, cold hearted miser who seems to hate everyone but himself. However, could there be more than meets the eye?

old sinner! Hard as a steel and sharp as a flint, from which no steel

All the other girls rushed over to help move the rest of the boxes out of the way. The door was about same width as a regular door, but it was only half the height. It was made made of stained-glass in different shades of blue and green. There was a tree made of wrouight iron twisted through the glass. The door didn't have a door knob, it just a small, black skeleton key with a smaller version of the stained glass attached to the end.