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Fezziwig's Party
Scrooge is starting to feel regretful.
"No," said Scrooge, "No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That's all" (Dickens 37).
Indirect Characterization- Thoughts -
Breakup with Belle
Belle, Scrooge's fiancee, calls off their engagement because she knows Scrooge loves money more than her.
"He was about to speak; but with her head turned from him she resumed. 'You may- the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will- have pain in this.(...) May you be happy in the life you have chosen!' She left him; and they parted" (Dickens 38).
Indirect characterization- Effect -
Cold Features
Scrooge is cold and hard-hearted, from his head to his toes, inside and out.
"a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!(...) The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and on his wiry chin" (Dickens 12).
Indirect Characterization- Look -
Guessing Game
Scrooge's family is having a party and they start to play a guessing game in which Fred chooses to describe Scrooge.
"'I have found it out! I know what it is, Fred! I know what it is!'
'What is it?' cried Fred.
'It's your Uncle Scro-o-o-oge!"
Which it certainly was" (Dickens 59).
Indirect Characterization- Effect -
Marley Visits Scrooge
Scrooge is hearing and seeing things that he couldn't find the source of, but soon he found out that it was Old Marley's ghost.
"His color changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes. Upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, "I know him! Marley's Ghost?" and fell again" (Dickens 21).
Indirect Characterization- Thought -
Sends Turkey to the Crachit's
Scrooge finally changes and he buys the biggest turkey and sends it anonymously, to the Cratchit's.
'"I'll send it to Bon Cratchit's!' whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh. 'He shan't know who sends it. It's twice the size of Tiny Tim'" (Dickens 77).
Indirect Characterization- Action -
Goes to Church
When Scrooge goes to church you can tell that he has completely changed, as he speaks to everyone on the street and is kind.
"He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure" (Dickens 78)
Indirect Characterization- Actions -
Raise & Warmth
In this scene, Scrooge raises Bob Cratchit's salary and lets him use coal in the fireplace.
"'I'll raise your salary, and endeavor to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob. Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!'"(Dickens 80).
Indirect Characterization- Action -
Start of Conviction
At this point, Scrooge is with the last of the spirits, and he starts to realize that he needs to change.
"'I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now. Merciful Heaven, what is this" (Dickens 67).
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EBENEZER SCROOGE
The Spirit of Christmas Future takes Scrooge to see his own grave and Scrooge realizes he has to change.
"Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE" (Dickens 72)
Direct Characterization
