How Is Ebenezer Scrooge Selfish In A Christmas Carol

Selfishness is something to watch out for in life, if you let it follow you it can cause your life to turn down the wrong path, and can forever destroy you when your life is finally set in place. In the traditional story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens follows a greedy selfish old man in the 1800’s of England. Ebenezer Scrooge was a old grumpy man who was visited by 3 spirits to make him see that he need to change his selfish ways. In the modern work of Dr. Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Grinch stole all of the Who’s toys and Christmas Decorations down in Whoville but when Cindy Lou Who tries to get him to believe in Christmas he refuses. Until he see’s that Christmas isn’t about the toys and decor it is about the time

Scrooge is not happy with his friend Marley who warned him about the ghosts that are going to visit him. He is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, and is watching the dreadful memory when Belle broke up with him. He was having fun until he was reminded of that dreadful moment in his life. One of the phrases Belle used in the process of breaking up with Ebenezer is, “You fear the world too much”(Dickens 26 ). This is one of the reasons Scrooge doesn’t like christmas because when reminded of his past relationship and when the ghost of christmas past revisited that memory. Scrooge was not happy. As well as The Grinch was very against christmas but started to have fun at the whoville-nation. The Grinch was invited to whoville-nation but started to have fun, but was soon reminded why he hated christmas. He remembered when someone in his class got him a razor for christmas because he was to hairy. It really opened his eyes to what fun was like, but when he was reminded of why he didn’t like christmas he got mad. Was like when Scrooge was shut up about his life with his memory with Belle. All things as I said before Scrooge is a nasty man with good deep down as does the