How Does Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

The Display of Scrooge’s Change It is very important that an author does a good job displaying his characters and their changes in the story. Charles Dickens does a great job showing us that Scrooge is not a static character in A Christmas Carol. Dickens displays his change using descriptions of Scrooge and through his actions before and after his Christmas experience. Descriptive descriptions are an author’s number one weapon when depicting a character of a story. Dickens uses this weapon right off the bat to convince us that Scrooge is bad person, “Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” (Dickens 12) These are definitely not the nicest of things to say about someone. Before we can even develop an opinion about

The author continually led us on about how the Scrooge was starting to feel pity and sadness for his past and also for Tiny Tim. This is a much different Scrooge than we saw earlier in the book. His change all leads up to this moment, “He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk -- that anything -- could give him so much happiness." (Dickens 78) At this moment, he has fully completed his change for the good. Dickens shows all of Scrooge’s merry and jolly actions and throw in the words like happiness and pleasure. This was Dickens’ final action to show us the completion of Scrooge’s transformation. Although expected, Dickens did a very good job showing us how happy he is while implementing the Christmas spirit,