Jacob Marley is Scrooge's best friend.
He was a good business man and a good friend to Scrooge
At the end of the book Scrooge recognises what a good friend Marley had been
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.
Based on the description Dickens gives he would after his change of heart make a very good friend
Marley shows himself to be a true friend to Scrooge by visiting him as a ghost to warn him about the consequences of his actions and to encourage him to change his ways. Marley's intervention ultimately leads to Scrooge's redemption and transformation from a selfish and miserly person to a kind and generous individual.
No; he had loved a girl when he was young, but she chose his best friend and he became embittered and miserly as a result.
Marley is the deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol". Marley comes back as a ghost to warn Scrooge about his miserly ways and the consequences in the afterlife.
Scrooge had very few close friends during his childhood. The friends he had were fictional characters from the books he read, such as Ali Baba and Robinson Crusoe.Scrooge and the ghost revisit Scrooge's early childhood when Scrooge spent Christmas alone at his boarding school."The jocund travelers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew and named them every one." (Stave 2)Seeing his boyhood classmates brings Scrooge to tears.Then Scrooge sees himself as a boy, neglected by his classmates and left alone to find adventure in books."It's dear old honest Ali Baba. Yes, yes, I know. One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just likethat. Poor boy." (Stave 2)"There's the Parrot." cried Scrooge. "Green body and yellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head; there he is! Poor Robin Crusoe, he called him, when he came home again after sailing round the island."(Stave 2)
Scrooge and Dick Wilkin had a close relationship as business partners and friends. However, their relationship deteriorated after Wilkin's death, leading Scrooge to become more isolated and miserly. Wilkin's death also serves as a pivotal moment in Scrooge's transformation in "A Christmas Carol."
Alan Silvestri First Waltz
Marley's purpose is to begin the saga of the three spirits that visit Scrooge. Marley is also there to explain to Scrooge his bad deeds and wrong doings and warn him of the terrible fate that will come if he does not change his ways, such as when he informs Scrooge on his "ponderous chain" he has forged, he says, "The weight and length of the coil you bear yourself? It was full and heavy as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it since." Marley was also Scrooge's only friend and now that he died, the reader is shown Scrooge's loneliness.