Bah Humbug! E is for Ebenezer , Scrooge that is! Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the classic Christmas novel by Charles Dickens. He is described ..." The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice...". Depicted as a stereotypical nasty money lender, Ebenezer hates Christmas, is mean to the poor and exploits his employees - not a nice old man at all! On Christmas Eve, the ghost of his previous business partner Jacob Morley visits and warns that like him, his fate in the after life will be to wander the earth forever because of his greed for money and cold heartedness in life. The visitation of the three Christmas ghosts - the Past, the Present and the Future offers a last chance of redemption by showing Ebenezer visions of the past love of his sister and fiancée who are now both lost to him; the pure joy...
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