How is Mr Scrooge described?

Answer 1

Mr. Scrooge is portrayed as a wealthy, miserly, and cold-hearted character in Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol." He is known for his extreme penny-pinching and lack of compassion towards others, especially during the Christmas season. Scrooge's transformation throughout the story highlights the themes of redemption and the power of kindness and generosity.

Answer 2

He is a cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. A quote from the book reads "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice

Answer 3

Although perhaps best left to the imagination, no one can describe Scrooge better than Charles Dickens himself:

"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled 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 his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."

Naturally, innumerable artists, illustrators, and even actors have attempted to interpret this description into the man Dickens describes in his book. Some point to portrayals by Jim Carrey, or (my personal favorite) Patrick Stewart as somehow being "definitive," but the mental image I carry with me - based on the book - I suspect will never quite be met by any created image or actor.

Answer 4

Dickens describes Scrooge as " a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled 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 his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas".

Answer 5

Scrooge's appearance is a crabby old man who doesn't really care about what people think of him.

Answer 6

The ghost of Jacob Marley, then the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come

Answer 7

he was considered in the original book as a small man, bent over with age and continual working on counting desks and books white should length hair with a small thin feactured face beneath

Answer 8

Scrooge was a mean, self-centered, selfish grouch who didn't see how good life was until the 3 ghoosts appeared

Answer 9

He wore clothes of a businessman of the Victorian age. However, these are really threadbare as he would not purchase new