Belle quote

• Another idol has displaced me...a golden one.: 'Belle'
• Idol


  A hero or something to be worshipped
• Scrooge's view of money


  The most important and desirable thing, even more important than love
• Belle's function in the novel

  • To remind Scrooge that he once put love before money and did not care that Belle was poor
  • The painful reminder is emphasised by the happiness she enjoys with a husband and children who value her properly
  • Once again, the reader learns how Scrooge came to be alone