Ebenezer Scrooge In Bob Marley's A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge lives in London and is working in his office on Christmas Eve. He is a covetous, old misanthrope who hates practically everything, especially Christmas. His nephew visits him, and invites him over for a Christmas Eve dinner. As anticipated, he rudely declines the invitation and criticizes the fact that his nephew is married, saying, “I would rather go live in a mental hospital than have dinner with your family.” Not long after, two men visit him and ask for a donation to the poor. Scrooge denies it and says,”They should be left to die,” and “it isn’t my business.” Bob Cratchit, a poor clerk, comes over and gives a coin to the men as they leave, then asks Scrooge for a day off Christmas. Scrooge complains, but eventually agrees. Scrooge walks home, grumbling at everyone he sees.

Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s dead business partner, visits Scrooge as he gets home, in ghost form. When Scrooge walks up to his door, the knocker

He came to take Scrooge to places in his past. First, he visited his school, with little boy Scrooge all alone. Next, he visits an older Scrooge at school, with his sister Fran picking him up to go home for Christmas. Scrooge starts to regret his younger self all alone, and how he treats his nephew, the son of his dead sister. They leave the scene and go to Fezziwig’s (his schoolmaster at the time) warehouse, where Scrooge got “apprenticed.” Fezziwig was having a party, and young man Scrooge compliments him on his kindness. Scrooge regrets how he treats Bob Cratchit, his clerk. They move to a different scene, where young man Scrooge is about to break up with his fiancee. The woman says how much he changed from the time they first met. She reprimands him about how he wouldn’t notice her if he met her right now, and that he has lost interest in a dowerless woman. They break up, and Scrooge regrets leaving her. After leaving his past, Scrooge falls asleep once