- Ebnezer Scrooge
The miserly owner of a London counting house or an accountant's office. The 3 spirits of Christmas visit the stodgy bean-counter with hopes of reversing Scrooge's greedy, cold-hearted approach to life.
- Bob Cratchit
Scrooge's clerk, a kind and very poor man with a large family. though treated harshly by his boss, he remains a humble and dedicated employee.
- Tiny Tim
Bob Cratchit's young son, crippled from birth. A highly sentimentalized character dickens uses to highlight the tribulations of England's poor and to elicit sympathy from his select readership.
- Jacob Marley
Scrooge's equally greedy partner in the living world. Marley died 7 years before the narrative opens. He appears to Scrooge as a ghost condemned to wander the world bound in heavy chains. He wants to save his friend from a similar fate.
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