A Christmas carol is a fiction book written by Charles Dickens, published in 1843.The book revolves around a character named Ebenezer Scrooge that gets Visited by three ghosts: the ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas present and the ghost of christmas future. Scrooge the main character of the novel, has many personality changes throughout the book. Through the beginning Scrooge is a: miserly, cold-hearted, bitter and impatient old man, with a negative outlook on life and a loathe for christmas, constantly referring it as "Bah! Humbug!". But over time his personality and views on christmas slowly changes. As the story continues he becomes regretful and remorseful about the things that he has done or the way he has or will affect others. During the start of the book Scrooge is a mean and nasty old man that only cares about himself and money. He is described as a cold man with hardened features who shared little and hung onto every penny. He kept to himself and had no friends and attended no social events. …show more content…
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.” This is because his father neglected him for many years, so he grew up as a poor man, which made him take a love towards money instead. He spent every christmas alone as a child, his girlfriend left him brokenhrearted, his bissinuss partner/friend, Marley, dies so Ebenezer became an alone man, his emotions almost shut off without a care for people (especially the poor). He was so consumed with his money that he neglected the people around