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- Difficult
- Unpleasant
- Mean
- Money Obsessed
- Solitary
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- "solitary as an oyster" under the sea, kept away, pearl inside
- "hard as flint" used in arrows, ignites fire
- "shrivelled" looks and "grating voice"
- Says the poor are "surplus population"
- Nature "brewing on a large scale", pathetic fallacy, something bad about to happen
- "darkness is cheap"
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- Scrooge represents selfish members of victorian upper and middle classes. He refuses to give to charity.
- Dickens establishes Scrooge as an unsympathetic figure to make his transformation more powerful.
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- Seeing Marleys ghost - makes jokes to "down his terror" despite being "not much in the habit" of trying to be funny.
- Marleys face in knocker - "terrible sensation" not felt since "infancy"
- He tries to say "humbug" about the warning from Marley, can't finish the word - this is already a sign of change and losing the negative outlook on life.
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