People using Christmas to help themselves to his money
It though they have gone mad
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Dickens affords Scrooge many comments. Some brutal, some sarcastic and many funny
The undertaker, char lady and laundress sell some of Scrooge's belongings for any money they can
The first record was Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901), a short British film that is the earliest surviving screen adaptation. then under the books name "A Christmas Carol" (1908), with Thomas Ricketts as Scrooge
In the book no reference is made to this
Scrooge locked the door and lit his dip (the Victorian name for a cheaply made candle using animal fats)
Fred, the nephew, said that Scrooge himself was the only person who really suffered from his misogynistic habits.
Mrs. Scrooge has made herself look nice for her husband's sake because she wants to impress him and make him happy. She wants to show him that she still cares for him despite their arguments and conflicts.
This is from the screen play and not the book. Bob thinks that Scrooge on Boxing Day Morning had lost all reasoning and gone mad when he saw him dance about the office and offer Bob more coal.
Marley infers sthat he himself was always near Scrooge but he could not be seen however, due to the significance of the situation he had made every effort to redeem himslf a little by helping Scrooge
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