CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
B. Data Description
Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, miserly, arrogant and creditor man. Many people dislike him. Everyone often called him a ‘nut’. It can be seen in the following dialogs and statements:
1)Good Businessman
“…but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral,”
2)Miserly
“…on the very day of the funeral and solemnized it with an undoubted bargain.”
“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.”
“I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make Merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”
“…, you don’t think I'm ill-used, when I pay a day’s wages for no work.”
3)Creditor
“‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus populations.”
4)Arrogant
What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘me through a round dozens of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will.”
5)Cold
“Let me leave it alone, then,’ said Scrooge.”
Moreover, Ebenezer Scrooge does not care about others. He only thinks about his money and himself. The dialogue above can be proved in the following dialogs:
“Nephew!’ returned the uncle sternly, ‘keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” (Chapter I: 7)
“If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” (Chapter I: 11)
“It’s not my business,’ Scrooge returned. ‘It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s.
Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!” (Chapter I: 11)
“Man of the worldly mind,’ replied the Ghost, (Chapter I: 21)
Afterwards, Scrooge arrived with three Spirits. He has become carefree with other people. He can take lessons when he goes with three
Spirits on Christmas. And he was learning from Tiny Tim too. So, it can change him to be nice with other people. Many people like him now.
He was known to become a good businessman, who likes to help the other people and be respectful or keep the Christmas. And he was happy in his life, forever. This can be seen in the following statements and dialogs:
“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”
“Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate aye reserved,”
“… A Merry Christmas everybody. A happy New Year to all the world. Hello here. Whoop. Hello.”
“Come back with the man, and I’ll give you a shilling. Come back with him in less than five minutes and I’ll give you half a crown.” (
“…, Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile. He looked so irresistibly pleasant, and afterwards, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.”
“Allow me to ask for your pardon. And will you have the goodness” – here Scrooge whispered in his ear.”
“Thank you,’ said Scrooge. ‘I am much obliged to you. I thank you fifty times. Bless you.”
(Chapter V: 106)
“Happy Christmas, Bob, you are my good friend, like I must have said years ago! I would like to increase your wage, and try to help your family in trouble, and we will talk about your problem this afternoon, while smoking together, Bob!
Flaming
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the fire and buy the place of fire again before you place the candles on it, Bob Cratchit!”
“Scrooge does better than he says. He all does it, and very much until not account, and for Tiny Tim, he did not die, Scrooge became his second’s father.”
1. Social Status of The Main Characters
The social status in this case deals with the main characters' educational background and their lives. Do the main characters have low, middle, or high education? Are the main characters from middle, upper, or modern classes? After reading the novel, the writer has a conclusion that the main characters
Ebenezer Scrooge was a successful businessman and was not highly educated. He had to know about administration, how to plan his business well for a good profit. He had a firm that had been handled by his clerk, Bob Cratchit and him. Based on this explanation, automatically Ebenezer Scrooge had to study and know about administration. This can be seen in the following statement:
“Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, but he was an excellent man of business ....”
Moreover, Ebenezer Scrooge had a “nuts” reputation in his city. So, the people who did not care for him saw that Ebenezer Scrooge had middle education, but Ebenezer Scrooge had a firm. He is a businessman. He was also rich, famous and miser. It can be proved by the following statements:
“There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes
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people new to the business called Scrooge and sometimes Marley……” (Chapter I: 4)
Therefore, Ebenezer Scrooge is high class. Such as when he was wearing clothes. It can be seen in the following statements: “Scrooge buttoning his great – coat to the chin.”
2. Social Relationship of The Main Characters
In this case the writer wants to discuss the relationship between the main characters and other characters surrounding them.
Human beings cannot stand alone in solving a problem. Furthermore, when a person is associated, certainly we must find a strange new life. But if a person stands his ground and cannot accept a new life in society, of course, we will have conflict in society.
Ebenezer Scrooge was life in a lonely, without friends, love, child, etc.
So, it can make Scrooge very close, miserly, and not care with the other people.
It can be proved by the following dialogs:
“Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks,”
“To edge his away along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing one’s call ‘nuts’
to Scrooge.” (Scrooge I:5)
“Nephew!’ returned the uncle sternly, ‘keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” (Chapter I: 7)
“If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” (Chapter I: 11)
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“It’s not my business,’ Scrooge returned. ‘It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s.
Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!” (Chapter I: 11)
“Man of the worldly mind,’ replied the Ghost,…
Furthermore, Scrooge has three Spirits. He changed into care with the other people. And become good people and very good people in the world. He can learn when he went with three Spirits on Christmas. And he was learning from Tiny Tim too. So, it can change him to be nice with other people. Many people like him now. It can be a good relationship for Scrooge with the other people in his city. He becomes lovely with the other people. This can be seen in the following statements and dialogs:
“I will honor a Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”
“… A Merry Christmas everybody. A happy New Year to all the world. Hello here. Whoop. Hello.”
“Come back with the man, and I’ll give you a shilling. Come back with him in less than five minutes and I’ll give you half a crown.”
“…, Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile. He looked so irresistibly pleasant, and afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.”
“Allow me to ask for your pardon. And will you have the goodness” – here Scrooge whispered in his ear.”
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“Thank you,’ said Scrooge. ‘I am much obliged to you. I thank you fifty times. Bless you
“He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.
He had never dreamed that any walk – that anything – could give him so much happiness.”
“Happy Christmas, Bob, you are my good friend, like I must have said a year ago! I would like to increase your wage, and try to help your family in trouble, and we will talk about your problem this afternoon, while smoking together, Bob!
Flaming the fire and buying the place of fire again before you place the candles on it, Bob Cratchit!”
“Scrooge does better than he says. He all does it, and very much until not account, and for Tiny Tim, he did not die, Scrooge became his second’s father.”