scrooges isolation

• in the beginning of the novel scrooge is described as

  secret and self contained as an oyster. the sibilance is similar to that of a snake which suggest him being sinister

  
• scrooge being described as a snake is a

  biblical allusion suggesting that scrooges isolation could be deadly

  
• the phrase as solitary as an oyster makes the reader understand

  the kind of person scrooge is

  
• scrooges isolation is also shown

  through all the interactions in the novel