How Does Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

“A Christmas Carol”, written by Charles Dickens, is a short novel, known as a novella. Dickens gets the reader’s attention by illustrating that a person can change over time. In this story of a miserable man, by the name of Scrooge, the readers are shown that he gives his life for money. He wants to be wealthy rather than enjoy life with his friends and family while being happy. Until he gets a visit from three different spirit guides. The three ghosts consist of the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Each of the ghosts teaches Scrooge a lesson. This finishes up with Dickens proving the handling of the underprivileged and a greedy man’s capacity can change and become a more caring individual.

To begin, on Christmas Eve, Scrooge had a visitor. His nephew, Fred,

Scrooge refused. Scrooge was not very fond of anything that had to do with Christmas or Christmas in general. For example, Scrooge stated, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart” (Dickens 7). Dickens uses the hyperbole to get the point across to the readers to express Scrooge’s hateful attitude towards Christmas. Scrooge is miserable and not so nice of a person. He only cares about himself and how much money he has. Scrooge is the type of person “to edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance…” (Dickens 5). Scrooge treats other people poorly including his employee. For instance, “The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who, in a dismal little