scrooge

• " squeezing, clenching, grasping, clutching,covetus old sinner! as hard as flint which never struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster" (stave 1 )
• " a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is still left there still. scrooge said he knew it and he sobbed " ( save 2 )
• "light as a feather. I'm happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man " (stave 5 )