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  1. www.sparknotes.com › lit › christmascarolA Christmas Carol: Full Book Summary - SparkNotes

    Full Book Summary. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party.

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  2. www.litcharts.com › lit › a-christmas-carolA Christmas Carol Stave 1 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts

    Analysis. The narrator states that there was no doubt about Marley ’s death. Scrooge, Marley’s business partner, signed the register of his burial. The narrator considers that the phrase “dead as a doornail” doesn’t even describe Marley's lifelessness well enough. He adds that Scrooge very much knew that Marley was dead, having been ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ebenezer_ScroogeEbenezer Scrooge - Wikipedia

    Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 short novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by three spirits (the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the ...

  4. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guidesChristmas Eve - Plot summary - Eduqas - GCSE English ... - BBC

    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man who transforms his miserly ways after four ghostly visits one Christmas Eve. Part of English Literature A ...

  5. www.sparknotes.com › character › ebenezer-scroogeA Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge - SparkNotes

    Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge’s very name has become synonymous with cold-hearted, miserly behavior, and his actions from the first time we meet him in A Christmas Carol do nothing to contradict this idea. He is seemingly immune to both cold weather and warm—“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him”—because he himself is cold ...

  6. www.gradesaver.com › a-christmas-carol › study-guideA Christmas Carol Stave One Summary and Analysis - GradeSaver

    A Christmas Carol Summary and Analysis of Stave One. Jacob Marley, the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, died seven years ago. On a dingy Christmas Eve, Scrooge, a cold, unfriendly miser, works in his counting-house while keeping an eye on his clerk, a small man named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge's nephew wishes Scrooge a merry Christmas, but ...

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  8. senecalearning.com › en-GB › revision-notesStave 1 - English Lit: AQA GCSE A Christmas Carol - Seneca

    Scrooge's attitude to marriage. Fred invites Scrooge to dinner with him and his wife on Christmas Day. Scrooge asks Fred why he got married – when Fred tells him it was because he fell in love, Scrooge growls at him, as if he thinks the whole idea is “ridiculous”. Fed up with his cheery nephew, Scrooge continually attempts to ignore him ...