To revise the character of Scrooge and what his character represents​

STAVE 1 – Scrooge talking to the

charitable gentlemen

I wish to be left alone

 I don’t make merry myself at Christmas

and I can’t afford to make idle people merry’​

If they’d rather die

they had better do it 

and decrease the surplus population’ ​ ​

STAVE 2 –  Scrooge sees himself as a lonely child

left at school in the past​

They went, the Ghost and Scrooge

across the hall to a door at the back of the house

It opened before them 

and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room

 a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire

 and Scrooge sat down upon a form,

and wept to…