A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Short summary

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The author describes the personality and activities of an elderly man named Scrooge. After the death of his companion, Marley, he became the sole owner of the company they co-founded.

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Dickens describes the personality characteristics as well as the activities of the old man whose name was Scrooge.

After the latter’s companion named Marley went into the next world, the aforementioned gentleman became the sole manager of the firm they had once founded together. However, Scrooge respected his late friend, and so even a year after Marley’s death he would not remove his name from the signboard of their organization. Sometimes some enterprising newcomer, addressing the main character, called him either Marley or Scrooge. But he was not offended at all and responded even when he was misnamed.

Nevertheless, the representative of the stronger sex described by the creator was by no means a good person. The writer states that Scrooge was a greedy person to the extreme. He adds that the main character had a heart of stone, and no man had ever managed to arouse the slightest bit of compassion in him.