How is London described in the opening of the A Christmas Carol?

Answer 1

"The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already: it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale."

Answer 2

In the opening of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens describes London as a cold, foggy, gloomy city. He portrays it as a place where poverty and misery are prevalent, while also highlighting the stark contrast between the wealthy and the destitute.