Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is the miserly protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.

Character Profile & Background

• Origin: Born in 1783, Scrooge is 60 years old at the start of the novel in 1843.
• Personality Traits: Famously described by Dickens as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner" who is "solitary as an oyster".
• Backstory: His cold and rigid demeanor stems from a lonely childhood, the grief of losing his beloved sister Fan, and past emotional wounds.
• Family & Relationships: He is the uncle of Fred Holywell, the estranged former employer/partner of Jacob Marley, and the ex-fiancée of a woman named Belle.
• Clerk: He employs Bob Cratchit, paying him 15 shillings a week while forcing him to work in a bitterly cold office.

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