Jacob Marley was Ebenezer Scrooges business partner. Unlike Scrooge Marley did spend on himself and had a large house near the city of London. However, he was as ruthless as Scrooge when dealing with business and would make sure the every penny spent created many for himself.
Marley died seven years before the story is told and is allowed to return to offer advice to Scrooge. That advice is to change his ways and to help his fellow man. He tells Scrooge that he (Marley) had made for himself a huge chain of torment symbolised by a long chain wrapped around his body interlaced with ledgers, safes and money bags. IN his foretelling Marley warned Scrooge that Scrooges chain was already seven time longer and therefore heavier to carry that his own . He finally lets Scrooge see other spirits who are like himself suffering everlasting torment. It is then that Marley tells Scrooge he will be visited by three ghosts who are to help him...........If he listens to them.
This was his dead business partner Jacob Marley
No, Jacob Marley was not the first spirit in "A Christmas Carol." The first spirit that visits Ebenezer Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Past. Jacob Marley, the ghost of Scrooge's former business partner, appears later in the story to warn Scrooge about his impending fate if he does not change his ways.
The ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's former business partner, was responsible for the sound of dragging chains that Scrooge heard. Marley's spirit visited Scrooge to warn him about the consequences of his greedy and selfish ways.
As a spirit he was woeful and desperate to tell Scrooge of his impending doom
Initially on seeing his spirit Scrooge dismissed him as a piece of undercooked meat or raw potato. However, Marley's wailing and moaning soon convince Scrooge of who he is
The first spirit-like visitor seen by Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" is the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost appears to warn Scrooge about his current path and to set the stage for the visits by the three Christmas spirits.
a ghostly vision of Jacob Marley
Jacob Marley was Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." He was the very first ghostly visitor to Scrooge on Christmas Eve to tell Scrooge that he would be visited by three other spirits that night. The opening sentences of the book are "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
Jacob Marley for foretelling his rate and the three ghost who take Scrooge through his life and help him see what the spirit of Christmas is about
the 1st ghost to visit scrooge in a Christmas charol is Jacob Marley . Marley was scrooges business partner before he passed away...
Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley appears as a ghost to warn Scrooge about the consequences of his selfish ways.
Jacob Marley