“Ebenezer Scrooge... England's most tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, corvouse, old sinner”(Charles Dickens 236). All these adjectives reply to Scrooge and more. He loved nobody and nobody loved him. After he has been visited by these spirits(Past, Present, and Future) he realized, oh, I really am a grouchy old man and he saw how his behavior reflected his life how he has no wife or family and how it reflected others life like his employee and he wanted to change.
One reason people may think Scrooge acts the way he does is that as a child his father did not really bond or spend time with Ebenezer. So Scrooge did not really spend time with he family. Since the time he was able to attend school his father sent him to boarding school and did not communicate with him. During the holiday season his sister Fan went to visit him and she told him ”Father is so much kinder now, and home is like heaven. He spoke so gently to me one dear night and I was not afraid to ask him once more if you could come home and he said
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He was like a new person you would have to ask for his name twice to make sure it was really him. He wanted to be extra kind, so he bought the Cratchits the biggest goose there was and he gave the boy he asked to get the goose a half a crown which is a lot of money. Then he went to see his nephew and he was very nervous because for years he told the nephew no he would not go to dinner and Scrooge did not even go to his own nefews wedding. The day later on December, 26 Crachet came in late for work wich will usally make Scrooge mad scince he told Crachet on Christmas eve to be there at the crack of down and no later. Now Srooge was a new man. He told Crachet what every employee wants to hear “ I am raising your salary” (Charles Dickens 290) Crachet was so happy and in shook he passsed