Materialism and wealth

• ‘i wear the chain i forged in life’ made of ‘cash boxes, heavy purses’

  • semantic field of money highlights how marley misused money and caused him to ‘wear the chain’
• dickens explores this with a negative manor
• ‘his wealthy is of no use to him. He doesn’t do any good with it’

  • money is corrupting
  • Scrooge materialistic persuit of wealth is futile as his egoistic views opposes charity