A Christmas Carol

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Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist of Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, and is depicted as a bitter an unpleasant man who views Christmas as a “humbug!” It is clear that he is solely concerned with wealth and financial gain, paying his poor clerk Bob Cratchit a meagre wage, and refusing to donate to or help others in any way.

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