"He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs, slowly too: trimming his candle as he went." It was a very large stairway, wide enough for a carriage. His small candle did not do much to light up the area.
He lit a dip (inexpensive candle) and walked up stairs
Scrooge's door opened by itself in A Christmas Carol.
It briefly turned into Marley's face
The face of Jacob Marley appears in Scrooge's door knocker in "A Christmas Carol." Marley, Scrooge's former business partner, serves as a warning to Scrooge about the consequences of his life choices.
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Jacob Marley is dead as a door nail. He appears as a ghost to warn Scrooge about his fate if he does not change his ways.
In the book " A Christmas Carol " scrooge sees the face of his old friend named Marley. I am not sure if this will help but I do recall that Marley has chains.
The brass door kncker changed from a lions head to that of an image of Jacob Marley
In "A Christmas Carol," Scrooge's only visitor is his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, who appears as a ghost. Scrooge does not have any friends early in the story, but he eventually connects with his nephew Fred and with Bob Cratchit and his family.
Marley's face appeared on the door knocker of Scrooge's house, as Scrooge arrived home on the night of Christmas Eve. This haunting image marked the beginning of the supernatural events that transformed Scrooge's life in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
I think he had a good feeling because he had seen what he did in the past ans wants to change that in the future.
In Stave One of "A Christmas Carol," the major event is the visitation of Marley's ghost to Ebenezer Scrooge. Marley's ghost warns Scrooge about his greedy ways and foretells the arrival of three other spirits who will help to change his ways.
Scrooge was startled because the door knocker appeared to transform into the face of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, who was now a ghost. This supernatural occurrence set the stage for the visitation of the three spirits on Christmas Eve in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the knocker on Scrooge's door transforms into the face of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, as a spooky and supernatural message to warn Scrooge of the impending visitation of three spirits. The change in the knocker serves as a catalyst for the supernatural events that follow in the story.