Compare Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in Stave I and Stave V

Compare Dickens’ presentation of Scrooge in Stave I and Stave V

Scrooge’s presentation in Stave I and in Stave V is very different. In

Stave I Dickens presents Scrooge, as a cold-hearted old man who loves

himself and hates Christmas. In contrast, his nephew Fred enjoys

Christmas with his wife, and is so nice to Scrooge all the time

whereas Scrooge is always mean to Fred, (“Bah, Humbug”). Dickens uses

the weather to describe how cold it gets when Scrooge is near; the

point that he is trying to make is that he is so mean that his

meanness has infected the atmosphere. It tells us that Scrooge is only

worried about himself and his money. After Scrooge talking and hanging

around with ghosts he goes back to bed and wakes up to reality, and

changes all his mean ways.

In Stave I, Dickens emphasizes the negative side of Scrooge. Scrooge

is well known around his town and one day two portly gentlemen come

over and ask for some money for the poor, who can’t celebrate

Christmas but Scrooge says, “Are there any prisons”? The gentlemen

replied, “Plenty of Prisons”, this just tel...