But Christmas Present will also warn Scrooge that without more money, the Cratchit family will lose its youngest and most fragile member, Tiny Tim. This supernatural appearance is followed by the Ghost of Christmas Present, who comes to show Scrooge people enjoying their humble Christmases: the sentimental family celebration of the Cratchits and the more rollicking party thrown by his nephew Fred. He takes Scrooge on a tour of his unpleasant childhood, his fall from grace with his father, and the loss of a fiancée but he will show the good times too, when, as the employee of Fezziweg, Scrooge learned what a joyous holiday Christmas could be. The Ghost of Christmas Past is the next visitor.
" Humbug!" he calls it, but at night on Christmas Eve the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to change, visits him or further spirits will arrive. He treats his clerk Bob Crachit badly, he refuses to help the poor and miserable, and he hates Christmas. Seven years have passed since Marley's Christmas death, and Scrooge has not changed a bit. His merriment was no mere pretense his laughter bubbled over and was contagious his buoyancy was immense and there was not a soul present who did not become infected with the same feeling of genuine happiness.Ebenezer Scrooge has lost his only friend, his business partner Jacob Marley. As he did in everything else, he threw his heart into it. All this time Charles Dickens was the life and soul of the party.
Sometimes there would be a charade sometimes games, of which he was particularly fond sometimes a country dance with the servants brought in to take their part. 24, 1933, Dickens’s son Henry discussed what Christmas meant to his father and described how the family celebrated the holiday: “There was usually a long walk with the dogs on the afternoon of Christmas Day and the festivities in the evening, varied as they were, were typical of the time that is to say, they were all brightened by good humor and high spirits. In an essay for The New York Times on Dec. On the novel’s 80th anniversary in 1923, The Times called it “the greatest little book in the world.”
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