BOB CRAITCHT

• “if quite convenient, sir”

  • short exchange of dialogue in stave one represents how poor classes were silenced and oppressed by the upper class
• “clerk”

  • lack of name highlights how the poor were stripped of their individual identities
  • upper class don’t see them as individuals, rather a group of lazy people who don’t contribute enough to the economy
• “dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons“

  • metaphor
  • festivity of ”ribbons” being all over her dress highlights how the foundations of the cratchits may be impoverished but they celebrate and glorify the little they have
• ”the Founder of the feast”

  • “founder” connotes creator, alluding to how Bob sees Scrooge in an idolised way as he believes scrooge is the creator of Bobs ability to have what he sees as luxuries