ghost of past

• like a child yet like an old man

  symbolizing innocence compared to bitter him now oxymoron juxtaposition innocence robbed through greed theme supernatural
• bright as a ballroom

  workhouse is warm contrasting scrooges place to work eg'dismal little cell'simile
• another idol has displaced me


  scrooge has become so obsessed with greed religious referance
• solitary child neglected by his friends

  foreshowdows neglected grave
• a bright clear set of light

  shows the path