Analysis Of Scrooge

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A miserable and hateful person, Scrooge is a bad man and he does not care about anyone besides himself. Consequently, he gets a visit from three ghosts. The text states that he didn’t even want to go to his nephews Christmas dinner, he said “Christmas puts the human race in debt and that people should work on Christmas to help cover the debt he”. According to the text someone tried to help charity and he said that they should go to jail or they should go to a workhouse! On page 1 I did notice that he was very lonely when Marley died and that they started a business together, maybe that made him act like a miserable old freak but who knows he just does not like Christmas. But also on page 1 and 2 I noticed that he was very inappropriate to his

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