Ebenezer Scrooge

𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 A Christmas Caro𝘭 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴

I guess I can’t really call Scrooge one of my favorite characters because the man is dense as a brick, but there’s a reason he’s so wedged in our cultural memory. Everybody knows a Scrooge. Some of us have had the misfortune to know several. Though the book’s dark comedy comes from the ludicrous extremes of Scrooge’s miserliness, his real problem is a poverty of spirit. He’s a bitter old man, scornful of other people’s feelings but eager to rant about his own imagined grievances, living in self-imposed exile from the rest of humanity. It takes four ghosts working overtime to peel back the layers of his onion heart and get him to recognize his pattern of stepping back from people every time he suffered disappointment or embarrassment, and uselessly trying to fill the emptiness in his soul with money.

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