How Does Scrooge Change Throughout A Christmas Carol

In the (A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley by Horovitz) Scrooge changed throughout the play Marley visit him toward Scrooge to change so that he wouldn't end up like him in big heavy chains. Three other ghosts realize how sad and lonelybecome. In the In the beginning Scrooge didn't care about Christmas, in fact he hated it! Scrooge yells at his nephew,” ‘What else can I be? Eh? When I live in a world of fools such as this? Merry Christmas? What’s Christmastime to you but a time of paying bills without any money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through

Look, you, sir, a school ahead. The school room is not quite deserted. A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.

[Scrooge falls to the ground; sobbing as he sees, and we see, a small boy, the young Scrooge, sitting and weeping, bravely, alone at his desk: alone in a vast space, a void.]’” (Horovitz 251)

This shows me how Scrooge hates Christmas. And it's because all he could remember about it is him being alone and not celebrating it. It also shows how he was sad, lonely, isolated, and left out. In the end Scrooge loved Christmas and would spread the cheer to everyone and give out more than he ever did making everyone feel welcome on Christmas, which he would have wanted as a kid. ,”’Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good as a friend, as good a master, as good man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world. And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. This shows how Scrooge was not as lonely anymore and would have a new caring family to spend time with. He changed because he didn't want a terrible future because he was already as loney when he was a