How long had Jacob Marley been dead?

Answer 1

Marley was as "dead as a door nail". Here is a quote from the book: "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. "

Answer 2

Some of the first words of A Christmas Carol are 'Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.' Dickens goes on to speculate about the idiom "dead as a door-nail," and continues to use it to impress us with Marley's undoubted condition. There is no doubt about that.

Answer 3

yes, because he said that marley was a ghost

Answer 4

Jacob Marley had been dead for seven years when he appeared to Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Answer 5

very dead. he was dead for seven years.

Answer 6

Dead as a doornail.

Answer 7

7 years