No Jim Carey here lads, just Dickens and a book. We aren’t looking at Scrooge like the movies botched him like they botched something as simple as a doorknocker either, they messed up Scrooge entirely! From hi description to his appearance, let’s break this down.

Firstly, I’ll be looking at Scrooge’s appearance. The first way Dickens describes Scrooge, is by saying he is “tight-fisted, clenching, grasping, covetous old sinner!”. If you notice, all of these are synonyms (Expect for the sinner part), clenching, grasping, they’re all the same. If Dickens didn’t drive the point that Scrooge is a very grumpy old man, then he tries to do so again with 2 more synonyms. He then follows up by saying “The cold within him frost out his old features”, insinuating that Scrooge is very cold, and unforgiving inside. So cold you could say, that it has even reached out to his physical features, almost making him seem like a frostbitten corpse on Mount Everest. Then then builds upon this point, by telling us which features of Scrooge are riddled with this frost; His nose, cheeks, brow, eyes, gait, voice and his chin. All of these give us the effect that Scrooge is a person whom has not felt warmth for a very long time, or that he is some sort of corpse resurrected by Krampus to bring down the Christmas Spirit (Kudos to those whom know what Krampus is, and not the movie). This overall gives us a highly negative impression of Scrooge: He is cold, his attitude is cold, everything he has is cold. Maybe he’d be friends with the Crooked Man, if he actually could make friends that is.

Next, will talk about Scrooge attitude. Dickens uses the term “covetous old sinner” to describe Scrooge’s character. Being that Dickens was brought up as a Christian, and A Christmas Carol was brought up during Victorian Times, which had the Catholic Faith being the most dominant, calling Scrooge a covetous old sinner really fits into what would most used to describe bad people at that time; Furthermore, being called a sinner implies Scrooge is an evil, and not a very nice person, furthering our already negative impression of him that we built from his bitter appearance. Dickens then talks about Scrooge’s attitude towards warmth and the cold, according to Dickens, Scrooge dislikes the warmth, and really does not care about him feeling it, or other feeling it. This a similar to his attitude towards the cold, albeit to a more positive degree; Scrooge takes an icy temperature where ever he goes, while this may be figurative, it really pushes the point that Scrooge is a cold and unforgiving person. He won’t give you warmth, and he won’t even give you coldness either! That fact that always likes it cold, means that he likes to keep things consistent. For an example, his money. Like the cold, Scrooge keeps it very close, and even if it was to save your life, he still wouldn’t give you anything. Once again, Scrooge is implied to be very harsh, secretive, miser-like, and very unforgiving.

And there you have it: Might I say that was one hell of a description, but what the heck. I’d be easier describing myself without beating myself up over it, but that’s other story I’ll keep from you for the next 36 months.