Describing Scrooge
“As solitary as an oyster.”
Scrooge’s belief about workhouses
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Dickens using Marley to scare victorians to change their ways.
“I wear the chain I forged in life.
Marley talking about Scrooge’s sins.
“It is a ponderous chain.”