Chapter 5

• Characteristics (start of the book):

  • Cold-hearted
  • Anti-social
  • Selfish
  • Hates Christmas
  • Stingy
  • Grumpy
  • Obsessed with making money
• 'Tight fisted'- Scrooge holds onto his money and doesn't by things for others.
• 'Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very small that it looked like one coal'- He doesn't like spending money even though he had a lot and is selfish towards Bob Chratchit.
• How Scrooge treats his nephew:

  • Very negative towards him, even though Fred is nice to him- 'Leave me alone then.'
  • Thinks that it is silly that his nephew got married- "Because you fell in love!' growled Scrooge, as if it were the only thing in the world more ridiculous"
  • Can't take Fred seriously.
• Scrooge's attitude towards Christmas:

  • Hates it-"Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holy through his heart. He should!'
  • 'Bah! Humbug!'
• 'Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name'-

  • Scrooge is unbothered
  • He doesn't want to spend money
  • He wants to keep is memory
  • Doesn't want to let him go
  • May take his pride in it
• 'Solitary as an oyster'-

  • Wants to be on his own
  • At the bottom of the sea bed
  • Pearls inside oysters
• Physical appearance:

  • 'Shrivelled his cheek'
  • 'Nipped his pointed nose'
  • Image of an old man
  • Physical appearance is unpleasant
• 'He iced his office in the dog-days and didn't thaw one degree at Christmas'-

  • When he goes into a room it makes it cold and stiff.
  • Even in the hottest days he makes it feel cold.
  • Doesn't make exceptions to celebrations.
  • Not a pleasant environment.
  • Metaphorical
• 'Clutching, covetous'-

  • Greedy, jealousy
  • Clutching- grasping onto something.
  • Can look at it in many different ways.