How Does Scrooge Act In This Passage

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The way Scrooge acts in the story says a lot about him, however, so does the description about him in the sixth paragraph. The passage precisely states that Scrooge is “a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone” and “hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel struck out a generous fire.” Furthermore, the passage shows greater detail by saying that he’s “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” and “solitary as an oyster.” This plethora of information shows a generous amount of greediness and cold-heartedness. Moreover, this quote states,“the cold within him froze his features,” which proves the point that he isn’t a very cheerful person. Progressing on, the story begins to compare him to weather, revealing …show more content…

Taking Scrooge on a journey down Memory Lane, the spirit helps Scrooge recollect a few times in his past when the light of Christmas truly shone. Moreover, they observe Scrooge when he was a child reading in a room concealing hidden delightful memories. Accordingly, Scrooge recalls, “‘There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something.’” Furthermore, after scrutinizing himself when he was an apprentice and perceiving how his boss acted toward him, he, consequently, explicitly, states, ‘‘‘I would like to say a word or two to my clerk right now.’” Ordinarily, Scrooge would be furious at his clerk wanting to take Christmas off, conversely, now he mentions he’d like to have a discussion with him. This is a hefty change in Scrooge, maybe he’s starting to see the …show more content…

The phantom remains silent and simply guides Scrooge toward the city, where they eavesdrop on a few conversations between people. The first was between two men who were talking about how someone had recently died. Retorting about how nobody liked the man, they, consequently, expected nobody to show up to the funeral. Scrooge then continued to another pair of businessmen who had also heard the news that someone had died, but did not care. Scrooge, oblivious as to who they were talking about, tries to ask the spirit some questions, in which the spirit doesn’t respond. Moreover, the phantom just drags Scrooge to a nearly abandoned alleyway where the find three people, two females and a male, absconding themselves into a shop. As soon as the three saw each other, they marveled at what a coincidence it was that they were all there together, one of which, had stolen a few of the belongings of the dead man. Since nobody cared for the dead man, the trio stole some of his belongings. Not enough to make a scene, but still something. Scrooge, not understanding, asks the spirit to show him, himself in the future. Remaining halcyon, the phantom shows him to a graveyard, where in large print on an abandon grave reads: Ebenezer