Dickens describes it initially as "The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air". Then he states that in his hair was a pigtail (plaited lock of hair worn singly at the back of the head.)
Marley warned Scrooge to change his miserly ways.
Marley appeared to Scrooge in several places, but all were at his house. The first glimpse Scrooge gets is in the doorknocker, and then in several places in his room, and finally Marley appears in full body, floating through the locked door to talk to him.
On the door knocker of the front door
Scrooge replaced Marley's name with his own on the business sign after Marley's passing.
To warn Scrooge that unless he changes his ways and seeks to make amends to mankind for his previous miserly living then Scrooge was destined to walk the earth in eternal torment
Marley warns Scrooge thatt he(Scrooge ) is following the same downward path as he had and in doing so was making a chain of punishement for himself that was to be 7 times larger than Marleys
He thought he was going crazy at first so he didn't believe in it at first.
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The Rastafarian religion
Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
Scrooge never painted over Marley's name because Marley was his former business partner and Scrooge respected their shared history despite Marley being dead. It served as a reminder of their past together and possibly influenced Scrooge's future behavior.
Marley's purpose in the story "A Christmas Carol" was to warn Scrooge about the consequences of his selfish and greedy ways. Through Marley's haunting, Scrooge is given a chance to change his life before it's too late, thus serving as a catalyst for Scrooge's redemption and transformation.