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Examples Of Greed In A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol In a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens deeply presents how being greedy and selfish may ruin your life. He created Scrooge as a greedy old man. Throughout his life all Scrooge cared about was his money and being rich. Scrooge’s actions prove these things. He refuses to give money to the poor, he gives his poor clerk a very small wage, and he refuses to spend time with his nephew for Christmas dinner. Through the rest of the story, Scrooge is visited by his old business partner Jacob Marley that warns him of three spirits that would visit him that later that night. In the first scene Scrooge’s nephew comes in and tells him “merry

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