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Ghost of Christmas Past lazy film making

Charles Dickens refers to Scrooge as "... a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old man!" 

. It is usually assumed that he is a banker or professional money lender. Some recent versions portray him as a solicitor. he seems to have usurious relationships with people of little means. 

ask Scrooge if he is willing to help them raise a fund to help the poor, but Scrooge comments that he pays taxes for the poor

has praise for the Victorian era workhouses

the Ghost of Christmas Past visits him and takes him to see his time as a schoolboy many years earlier that make him feel a small amount of misery towards himself. Here it is suggested that his father abandoned young Scrooge at his boarding school, even during Christmas. This is relevant to Scrooge, because it shows the beginnings of his lack of socialization and empathy. He does not socialize because he never experienced steady growth in a strong family unit. He does not empathize thanks to the way he was treated: as a child, he was the least of his father's concerns, and this in turn taught him not to feel for fellow humans

Later the ghost shows how his success in business made him become obsessive and develop into a workaholic 



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