How is Scrooge described by Charles Dickens?

Answer 1

On Christmas Eve, densely foggy and bitterly cold. There is snow on the ground during his visitations. But Dickens describes Christmas morning as: "No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sun-light; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!"

Answer 2

Scrooge is described by Charles Dickens as a mean, miserly, and cold-hearted man who values money above all else. He is depicted as ruthless in his business dealings and indifferent to the suffering of others. Throughout "A Christmas Carol," he undergoes a transformation from a selfish and bitter old man to a more compassionate and generous person.

Answer 3

Mean, old, and a man with no spirit. He describes him 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."

Answer 4

Dickens uses very clear figurative language to put across the persona of Scrooge he states "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 5

The time of year was bitterly cold with fog and frost. Dickens drecribes Scrooge as being as Frosty as the weather and colder of heart

Answer 6

Icy Cold with snow and bitterly cold winds

Answer 7

Dickens states taht there are no effects as Scrooge is as icy as the weather

Answer 8

The original text states that Scrooge is as cold and frosty as the night itself as the weather bothered him not a jot.