Scrooge: something you call, as Charles Dickens describes it, “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” A Scrooge is a nasty human being, disgustingly selfish. Turning your description from that into something worthy of praise is difficult. However, if Ebenezer Scrooge- the very man the adjective “Scrooge” derived from- could change in the miraculous way that he did, I would that say anyone could change his or her ways. Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge was as mean as could be. He was very antisocial and did not enjoy venturing into public, but when he did, never would you hear a kind word from him or see a loving glance. Being so unsociable and cruel caused everyone to hate him, hate his very existence. Even animals loathed him. Dogs would tuck in their tails and cower from Scrooge. He wasn’t always like this, though. He used to be joyful, fun loving; he even had a fiancé. But money and greed hardened his heart and turned it into the cold, bleak thing it was. Nevertheless, there was still hope for this man.
By himself, it was an impossibility to change. Luckily, he had help. Scrooge was visited by his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who had been dead for seven years. Warning old Ebenezer about the chain he would have to bear if he did not change his ways, he told him that he would be visited by three spirits: the ghost of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to come. Throughout the spirits’ haunting, Scrooge learned much about his attitude and really realized how cruel he was when the Ghost of Christmas Present continually repeated Scrooge’s lines of the poor and how they had better die and decrease the surplus population.
After the spirits had shadowed him for a time and he reawakened on Christmas day, Scrooge felt like a new man. He became generous and secretly bought his clerk’s family a Christmas turkey and gave his clerk a raise. He became more sociable and went to his nephew’s Christmas gathering. He definitely became a more loving man and a boss that is easier to please. When he saw the charity men again whom he so rudely shooed away before his change of heart, he gave them an extremely generous donation. Yes, he was a changed man. Even though Scrooge was as nasty as they come, he found a way to change. He learned to love again. He learned to really live again. Back to his old ways he would never go, not after tasting the sweet miracle of change.
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