The dead man in the text is Scrooge, everyone says that Scrooge is mean and cruel. The people of the town are talking about Scrooge’s death because Scrooge is so mean. The town’s people despise Scrooge so when he died all the people were talking about him. The text states that “If he had been nicer, then someone would have been there when he was lying there gasping out his last breath. Every single time Scrooge’s death was mentioned no one seemed sad or seemed like they cared that Scrooge died, because the text referred to Scrooge as a tight fisted miser. The theme that everyone’s story has in common is that not one person who talked about Scrooge’s death not one thing was good all the things were negative not one thing was positive. The