Obscurity In The Great Gatsby

The story starts by setting up that Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business accomplice in the firm of Scrooge and Marley, was dead—the account starts seven years after his passing to the very day, Christmas Eve. Penny pincher and his representative Bob Cratchit are grinding away in the including house, with Cratchit positioned the ineffectively warmed "tank", a casualty of his boss' miserliness. Tightwad's nephew, Fred, enters to wish his uncle a "Happy Christmas" and welcome him to Christmas supper the following day. He is rejected by his relative with "Bah! Sham!" among different obnoxiousness, announcing Christmas time to be a cheat. Two "heavy honorable men", gathering beneficent gifts for poor people, come in a short time later, however they

With regards to his tightfisted character, Scrooge lives in a little suite of to a great extent empty rooms inside the house which he keeps dull and frosty since "obscurity is shabby" (whatever remains of the rooms in the building having been let out as workplaces). While he opens his entryway Scrooge is startled to see the spooky face of Marley rather than the natural appearance of his entryway knocker. This is only the start of Scrooge's nerve racking night. As Scrooge ascensions the staircase of his home he supposes he sees a train funeral wagon energizing the stairs before him out of the loop. As he gets to his room, puts on his robe, and eats his gruel by the chimney, he sees the carvings on his mantelpiece change into pictures of Jacob Marley's face. The greater part of the chimes in the house start to ring noisily. When they stop he then hears a banging clamor. His basement entryway opens boisterously and after that the thumping on the stairs coming upstairs and methodologies his room. Marley's apparition goes through the entryway and shows up before

This soul startles Scrooge more than the others, and harrows him with dreams of the Cratchit family dispossessed of Tiny Tim, of Scrooge's own forlorn demise and last torment, and the frosty, voracious responses of the general population around him after his passing (they joke about his demise and memorial service). Without its expressly being said, Scrooge discovers that he can maintain a strategic distance from the future he has been appeared, and modify the destiny of Tiny Tim—yet just in the event that he