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Who Is Ebenezer Scrooge Selfishful

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Ebenezer Scrooge’s major vice is his miserliness. However, he is transformed into a deeply generous man who cannot help but give away his precious money, time, and attention by the end of the play. Scrooge is selfish with his money and his heart. Scrooge is a grump and mean person while everyone is joyful and happy during the Christmas season. Scrooge is resolute about making people's lives as terrible as his.When two men came to his work and asked for a donation for the poor Scrooge and his empty heart had this to say about it, “Are there no prisons? And aren’t the Union workhouses still in operation? The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigor, then? If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

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