Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appearance

• The phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.: 'Stave Four'
• The Ghost

  • Mysterious and sinister in appearance
  • Resembling the Grim Reaper
• The description prepares the reader for the darkest moments of the novella
• Succession of adverbs


  • slowly, gravely, silently
• Ghost's slow movements towards Scrooge

  Create an unsettling and unnerving effect on him
• The Ghost's slow movements represent how this ghost should be feared
• Scrooge's overall journey to redemption

  1. Final visit

  2. Witness cold and unfeeling reactions to his own death
• This final visit


  • The most powerful in Scrooge's overall journey to redemption