A Christmas Carol: Scrooge Character Analysis ​ Scrooge’s perception of or actions Scrooge’s interactions with other The way other characters Scrooge’s perspective on a toward other characters characters perceive Scrooge person’s “business” ­ i.e., what one should value, how one should live Stave I Scrooge’s actions toward his clerk Scrooge’s interaction with his Scrooge’s nephew does not show that he does not trust him, nephew demonstrates that he understand why he is so dismal and does not allow him enough does not understand the and disgruntled with life, the coal to stay warm and Christmas spirit of others, and holidays, and other people. He comfortable while he works: “The believes that Christmas is a sham says: “Come, then,” returned the ​ door of Scrooge’s counting­house of a holiday and just another nephew gaily. “What right have was open that he might keep his excuse for people to spend ­ and you to be dismal? What reason eye upon his clerk, who in a for him to not make ­ money. He have you to be morose? You’re Scrooge tells the men who come dismal little cell beyond, a sort of says: “What else can I be,” rich enough.” for charity that his business is his tank, was copying letters. Scrooge returned the uncle, “when I live in work, and it is not his business to had a very small fire, but the such a world of fools as this? Despite Scrooge’s attitude, his interfere in the lives of others: clerk’s fire was so very much Merry Christmas! Out upon merry nephew wishes to be his friend. “It’s not my business,” Scrooge smaller that it looked like one Christmas! What’s Christmas time However, Scrooge rejects him: “I returned. “It’s enough for a man coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, to you but a time for paying bills want nothing from you; I ask to understand his own business, for Scrooge kept the coal­box in without money; a time for finding nothing of you; why cannot we be and not to interfere with other his own room; and so surely as yourself a year older, but not an friends?” people’s. Mine occupies me the clerk came in with the shovel, hour richer ” “Good afternoon,” said Scrooge. constantly. Good afternoon, … the master predicted that it “I am sorry, with all my heart, to gentlemen!” would be necessary for them to Scrooge’s interaction with his find you so resolute.” part.” nephew demonstrates that he prefers to be alone and unbothered: “Let me leave it ​ alone, then,” said Scrooge. “Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!” Grade 7: A Christmas Carol When two men approach Scrooge about donating to charity, he asks them whether there are prisons and workhouses for the poor. He then tells the men that he pays taxes to support the poor, and he does not need to give anything else. He also tells the men that the men who wish to die should do it and “decrease the population.” Scrooge returns to his past with When Scrooge sees himself as a In the scene where Scrooge sees Scrooge’s conversation with the the Ghost of Christmas Past and boy, he shares the following with himself at Fezziwig’s party, Ghost and his regret about not sees himself as a young boy, the Ghost: “I wish,” Scrooge Fezziwig appears to appreciate giving something to the boy alone at his school. “At one of muttered, putting his hand in his and enjoy Scrooge’s company. He singing carols suggests that these a lonely boy was reading pocket, and looking about him, says, ““Yo ho, my boys!” said Scrooge feels bad upon seeing near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat after drying his eyes with his cuff: Fezziwig. “No more work to­night. himself as a lonely boy and that down upon a form, and wept to “but it’s too late now.” Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, his perspective has changed from see his poor forgotten self as he “What is the matter?” asked the Ebenezer. Let’s have the shutters the previous day to some degree. Stave II used to be.” Spirit. up,” cried old Fezziwig, with a “Nothing,” said Scrooge. sharp clap of his hands, “before a Scrooge’s reflections to the Ghost In the next experience, Scrooge “Nothing. There was a boy singing man can say Jack Robinson.” about why Fezziwig’s actions visits a party thrown by his old a Christmas Carol at my door last mattered (because they made boss, Fezziwig. Scrooge is night. I should like to have given Scrooge and the others help others happy) show that Scrooge overjoyed to see his old boss, and him something: that’s all.” prepare for the party. is starting to see that how you explains to the Ghost why make others feel is important. Fezziwig's actions are so When the Ghost tells Scrooge In the final scene, Belle’s husband important ­ because they made that Fezziwig’s actions were shares the following about Grade 7: A Christmas Carol himself and so many others small, Scrooge denies it and Scrooge: “Belle,” said the At the end of the stage, Scrooge happy (see quote in the next argues why they were so big and husband, turning to his wife with pleads to leave the scene of column). He also is enthralled by important. He shares: “It isn’t a smile, “I saw an old friend of Belle’s house, which shows that the scene: “During the whole of that,” said Scrooge, heated by the yours this afternoon.” he has regret or remorse, or that this time, Scrooge had acted like a remark, and speaking “Who was it?” this causes him emotional pain: man out of his wits. His heart and unconsciously like his former, not “Guess!” “Spirit!” said Scrooge in a broken soul were in the scene, and with his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. “How can I? Tut, don’t I know,” voice, “remove me from this his former self. He corroborated He has the power to render us she added in the same breath, place.” everything, remembered happy or unhappy; to make our laughing as he laughed. “Mr. “I told you these were shadows of everything, enjoyed everything, service light or burdensome; a Scrooge.” the things that have been,” said and underwent the strangest pleasure or a toil. Say that his “Mr. Scrooge it was. I passed his the Ghost. “That they are what agitation.” power lies in words and looks; in office window; and as it was not they are, do not blame me!” things so slight and insignificant shut up, and he had a candle “Remove me!” Scrooge At the end of the Stave, the Ghost that it is impossible to add and inside, I could scarcely help seeing exclaimed, “I cannot bear it!” shows Scrooge two scenes with count them up: what then? The him. His partner lies upon the He turned upon the Ghost, and Belle ­ one in which she breaks up happiness he gives, is quite as point of death, I hear; and there seeing that it looked upon him with him and accuses him of great as if it cost a fortune.” he sat alone. Quite alone in the with a face, in which in some caring only about money, and one world, I do believe.” strange way there were in which he sees her with her fragments of all the faces it had family. Scrooge sees Belle as a shown him, wrestled with it. beautiful woman in the prime of “Leave me! Take me back. Haunt her life, with a loving family, me no longer!” home, and husband. When he sees her husband with the child, he thinks about how this could have been his own life: “And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her Grade 7: A Christmas Carol mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring­time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.” When Scrooge is visited by the Scrooge appears to start to shift Ghost of Christmas Present, he The Cratchit family dislikes his values. The text evidence in does so with reverence and Scrooge. The text says that he is the other columns demonstrate Scrooge shows an interest in Tiny respect: Scrooge entered timidly, considered the “ogre” of the he feels compassion for Tiny Tim Tim that is uncharacteristic for and hung his head before this family. Mrs. Cratchit voices her and remorse for his previous him: “Spirit,” said Scrooge, with Spirit. He was not the dogged dislikes, and refers to Scrooge as actions and views on helping the an interest he had never felt Scrooge he had been; and though an “odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling poor. before,”tell me if Tiny Tim will the Spirit’s eyes were clear and man.” The family feels this way live.” kind, he did not like to meet toward Scrooge because Mr. As Scrooge leaves Fred’s party, he “I see a vacant seat,” replied the them. Cratchit works hard as his is filled with joy and described as Ghost, “in the poor ‘I am the Ghost of Christmas employee but is paid little and feeling “gay and light of heart” Stave III chimney­corner, and a crutch Present,’ said the Spirit.