How is the weather in stave five A Christmas Carol?

Answer 1

In the beginning of A Christmas Carol the weather was described as a wintery snow storm which was very cold, gloomy and foggy.

Then towards the end, the weather, though still cold, was bright with sunshine and no longer gloomy. The aroma of the air was so pleasant that Christmastime could be felt by everyone including Scrooge.

One might guess that the cold, miserable and gloomy weather in the beginning, symbolizes Scrooge's world in his eyes. Then when visited by the ghosts, afterwards, the weather has changed. The sky was clear of fog and brightly shining, symbolizing that Scrooge has viewed Christmas and poor people in a positively different light. He has opened up his eyes, heart and mind to how it was truly meant to be.

Stave 1:

1. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
2. He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
3. Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The cold became intense. In the main street at the corner of the court, some laborers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice.
4. Foggier yet, and colder! Piercing, searching, biting cold. If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.

Stave 3:

1. The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and wagons; furrows that crossed and recrossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off, and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water. The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts" content. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavored to diffuse in vain.

Stave 5:

1. Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!

Answer 2

In Stave Five of "A Christmas Carol," the weather is described as crisp and cold, but bright and joyful. It signifies a new beginning for Ebenezer Scrooge as he embarks on a fresh start after the transformative events of the story. The weather reflects the hopeful and positive tone of the ending.

Answer 3

The weather is depicted as sunny but with snow on the floor and very cold