What is Ebenezer Scrooge compared to in A Christmas Carol?

Answer 1

Dickens compares him to "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 2

Ebenezer Scrooge is compared to the character of Jacob Marley in "A Christmas Carol." Marley is Scrooge's former business partner, who appears as a ghost to warn Scrooge about his greed and selfishness. This comparison highlights the qualities that Scrooge must confront in himself in order to avoid Marley's fate.