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Scrooge had worked his way up the financial ladder from humble immigrant roots. Firstly, he took up a job polishing and shining boots, and was enraged when a ditchdigger paid him with an 1875 US dime, which was useless as currency in 19th century Glasgow. However, the coin inspired him to take a position as cabin boy on a Clyde cattle ship to the United States to make his fortune at the age of 13. In 1898, after many adventures he finally ended up in Klondike. There he found a golden rock the size of a goose's egg. The next year he had made his first $1,000,000 and bought the deed for Killmule Hill from Casey Coot, the son of Clinton Coot and grandson of Cornelius Coot.
It is possible that Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who left his country for America at age 13 as a near-penniless immigrant teenager and eventually became the world's second-richest industrialist of his era, served as a model for Scrooge, who also immigrated at 13 according to Disney canon.
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Does Scrooge only care about money?
Yes, Scrooge seems to care about money and nothing else until he is visited by the three Spirits.
How is Scrooge obsessed with making money?
He sees this as a status symbol. By having money he proves his worth or so he believes
Is Scrooge a wealthy man?
Yes and he cares about his money more than anything.
If one is said to be a miser what would is one accused of?
A miser is 'tight with money' and a hoarder of money. Another term of a miser is a Scrooge!
Why won't Scrooge allow his clerk to take more coal?
At that time in Victorian Britain coal was very expensive. Scrooge was against burning a lot of coal which in effect was burning money
