Scroogy

Times can and will change, people can and will change, and in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge could and did change. In the beginning of the tale, we see him as a cruel, miserly and insensitive old man and after he has his dreams, he is no longer that, but a caring, sympathetic and generous man instead.
In the first stave of the story, Scrooge’s character was revealed as unkind, uncharitable and overall cruel. He refuses to heat his own office, much less that of his impoverished yet hard working clerk and even goes so far as to try and deny him a Christmas break, stating that his clerk was trying to rob him of the wages he would dole out for the day of vacation. This shows us that he is miserly and cruel, typically what we would call cheap. When the association of men comes looking for donations to help the unfortunate, he not only says no, he goes so far as to say they should decrease the excess population and do it quickly. He feels no qualms or ...