Mrs Dilber quote

• Mrs Dilber: 'He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!'
• Mrs Dilber

  Takes advantage of Scrooge's lonely state to steal everything possible
• There doesn't appear to be any mourning for the death of Scrooge
• Exclamatory sentences

  • Create a cheerful and comic tone to Mrs Dilber's words
  • Enhance to Scrooge that people are not emotional about his death and instead, use it as an opportunity for financial gain
• Characters

  • Represent what the Victorians would consider 'the undeserving poor'
  • Warn Scrooge, and others that behave like him, what may happen if they drive others away from them
• Dickens was aware that not all of the poor were like those sympathetically presented in Stave Three