How does Dickens present the change in Scrooge?

Answer 1

Before his encounters with the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and with the three Christmas Spirits, Scrooge was a mean, miserly, intensely selfish man. All this, of course, changed after those encounters.

Answer 2

Dickens presents the change in Scrooge through the visits of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, which help him reflect on his past behaviors and their impact on others. Through these encounters, Scrooge undergoes a transformation from a miserly, selfish character to a more generous and compassionate individual. The change is highlighted by his newfound appreciation for the joys of giving and his desire to mend his relationships with those around him.

Answer 3

Dickens describes Scooge as a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice

Answer 4

Dickens describes Scrooge as being " a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek"

Answer 5

He is described by Dickens in Stave one as " he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."

Answer 6

Initially Scrooge is seen to be remorseful or saddened by things he sees and hears

Answer 7

everyone thinks Scrooge is a bitter man