The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential (Michael Dooley). Young Scrooge started as a very hopeful, creative boy that had many negative experiences. These experiences set him on his cold hearted, lonely, christmas-hating path. As a young child, Scrooge was sent to a boarding school where he spent Christmas alone in the empty classrooms. This planted the first seed for his attitude later in life. A point in Scrooge’ life in which he was content was when he was apprenticed under Fezziwig. Learning business with his friend Dick Wilkins, he became engrossed in banking and thrived in his close friendship. Because of his love for banking, he started to push others away without meaning too. This caused his fiancee to break off the marriage and truly cemented him in his cold hearted path. The realization of potential to change became evident to Scrooge, just like all have the ability to meet our potential through change, , open views, and willingness to change.
Everybody has the potential to change, Scrooge demonstrates during the story this with positive attitudes. Scrooge indicates this in stave V when he states, “I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy… A merry Christmas to
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In stave III Scrooge addressed the Ghost of Christmas Present,”Spirit”, said Scrooge submissively, “Conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now tonight, I know you ought to teach me, let me profit by it.”(Dickens, 25). In this Scrooge went upon his second journey with the ghost of christmas present with open views. With the spirit of christmas past Scrooge was compulsive and unwilling to change. From this he couldn't learn much now without the shadow of a doubt he changed his views to learn