Nobody Liked Scrooge Analysis

As readers, we are forced to feel sympathy for Scrooge. He has lost his'sole' friend and 'executor' and is presented as very isolated from society. However, when

This is backed up by the many things that Scrooge is shown, but denies. One of these things is when he saw all of his possessions being sold after he died. He is shown everything of value he owned being sold after he died, but he denies it because of his fear. The last example is when he sees his grave. He denies that that will be the final outcome, and he begs to have the chance to make up for the things he has done.

Why was everyone talking about the dead man, mean old Scrooge. According to the text no one even cared about Scrooge, they didn’t even care he died they just left him to die alone. A few examples of quotes are “He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead.”That quote describes Scrooge. That quote describes Scrooge. Another quote that describes Scrooge is “If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, a wicked old Scrooge.” One last example is “Spirit, said Scrooge shuddering from head to foot. I see I see, the case of this unhappy man. They all show how Scrooge was a bad person and how no one liked him and the only person that did died and his name was Jacob Marley. Everyone in town was gossiping about

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

In stave four, the spirit shows Scrooge scenes that show people talking badly about him or showing no concern about his death. Since he didn’t care about any of them, they thought badly of him. This shows several times in stave four. On page 97, it states “‘...why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he’d have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.’”

Ebenezer Scrooge has gone through some really hard changes throughout the passage. The begging of the passage Scrooge was a really grumpy man who wasn't liked by many people from the town. On page 6 it quoted “ If they would rather die said Scrooge, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” this statement showed how Scrooge really didn't have a heart to care for others. Everyone in town was afraid of him because he was just really cold hearted that when someone would say Hi to him he would just walk by and ignore that person.

Isolation is the main theme in this Stave. Scrooge is not involved in society and is not sympathetic in any way and is not liked by anybody. As it says in the text on page 3,” …. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say with gladsome looks,”My dear Scrooge, how are you?” …. No man or woman ever once in his life inquired the way to such and such a place.” Is also states in the very beginning, “Scrooge knew Marley was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't 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.” Since Marley was his only friend when he died his only bridge to humanity was gone. Even with Bob Cratchit and his nephew around him, he never established that connection nor did he want to.

From the reading, I know that Scrooge is a dolorous and crabby man who is identified as all head no heart. A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone kind of man is he accounting for every sterling. I know he hates Christmas by the response he gave to his nephew when he came to ask Scrooge to join his family for dinner. Fred, his nephew, says to Scrooge, “Christmas a humbug, you don’t mean that , I am sure.” Scrooge replies, “I do.” “Merry Christmas! What right do you have to be merry?” Fred ignores Scrooge’s negative response and continues to spread his joy by asking his uncle to join his family for dinner. On page six when carolers visited at his door, “Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.” The foggy frozen mist outside his office crept through the door to freeze his old features as it did his heart. That one of a kind man is very greedy and selfish. The text claims he is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Scrooge’s business partner Marley is “dead as a doornail!” Marley’s ghost appears within Scrooge’s door knocker one day. Scrooge is slightly freaked out by the fact that Marley’s ghost is at his house! He then asks the ghost who he is. The ghost immediately responds telling him to ask who he was. Marley’s ghost continuously asks Scrooge if he believes in him. Scrooge responds as if he does, but does not.

At first glance, you might think scrooge is and ordinary senior who owns a business and has quite a fortune, but once you look into his eyes you see how his soul is dark, small,crooked, shattered and beyond repair and clearly from a lost love. Might be the reason why he is so inconsiderate and he only cares about

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.

The outlook of his house was dull. This quotation illustrated this “It was old enough, dreary enough, for nobody but Scrooge" ---------------------------------------------------------- The inside of his house was also dull and dark and was like nobody lived in it. He had splinters on his staircase and it was dark and dull, which was very similar to Scrooge’s character.

Scrooge’s Transformation Characterization is how a character in a book or movie acts and feels. Characters in literature sometimes make dramatic transformations. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the character Scrooge is defined as an old man with no love for anything but money but, becomes more loving than ever before at the end of the book. In Stave 1, Dickens establishes Scrooge’s character as someone who is greedy and grouchy.

Scrooge is presented as a lonely character who has little left in life. Often he is linked to cold and darkness, perhaps linking to the demons he faces and how he presents them to others coming across as a moody, melancholics man. He has a fixation with money and how no money should be given away. Scrooge is similar to a villain in fairy tales which may be where Dickens got his character from.  In the opening line of the extract Scrooge is described as "a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone".

Readers are first introduced to Ebenezer Scrooge in Stave I, and characterization transpires through various diction. A description of Scrooge is provided within the first few pages, supplying the reader with a concept of Scrooge’s misanthropic way of life. “But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary

Throughout the last stave, Scrooge is portrayed as a ‘changed man’, shown through his many acts of kindness and love as well as his changed attitude towards poverty and prosperity. “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town or borough, in the good old world.” This statement encapsulates the stark contrast between Scrooge’s character in the first stave when compared to the last. It can even be said that the last stave is written in a symmetrical manner to that of the first. This is made obvious through the stark opposites that can be seen in Scrooge’s personality in the first stave when compared to the last; where he used to be greedy and self-absorbed, he became selfless and compassionate. Dickens uses this example of symmetry to make Scrooge’s transformation even more discernible to readers as to allow them to note just how a model citizen should act towards others.