Yes, he was mean.
The word "Scrooge" was first used as a slang term to mean a miserly person. The character Ebenezer Scrooge was created by Charles Dickens in his novel "A Christmas Carol" in 1843, which popularized the term.
In the beginning, Scrooge is:- greedy- cold-hearted- mean- selfish- uncaring- not generous- darkAt the end, Scrooge is:- giving- friendly- caring- joyful- free- generous
So that scrooge sees the wider world and how they celebrate and keep Christmas
Miserly, scrooge-like
ebenezer scrooge
In old English the name Ebenezer means stone or gravel and the name Scrooge is from the word Scour which means to crush or to press
In the beginning, Scrooge was mean, a lover of money, lonely, selfish, bitter, unhappy and uncaring toward others.
Depends where in the world you are and the main schedules
No one; life's events hardened him to the suffering of others.
Because, as she states a new idle has taken his heart, a golden one. This was to mean that Scrooge saw money not love as his main focus
To show him how to live Christmas every day and to show Scrooge what was happening in the world around him yet scrooge denied its existence in particular the volume of people that were poor, their treatment and the way they were trying to survive