In Stave One, Scrooge is described as a character with little care for those around him; "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner, hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire." ... In the same stave, Dickens uses Marley to reveal the consequences of neglecting ones fellow man; he is doomed in death to "witness what [he] cannot share, but might have shared and turned to happiness," weighed down by a "ponderous chain of "cash boxes [and] padlocks" that he'd "forged in [his] life." ...

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