A Christmas Carol

Question 1

What does the quote “secret, self-contained and solitary as an oyster” suggest?

Answer 1

That scrooge is isolate.
As well as he is a good person but hard to crack open. scrooges ‘goodness’ is the pearl within an oyster.
The pearl could also represent scrooge’s money as he is a miser, and doesn’t like spending it. thinks it’s worthless using it to help himself and others

Question 2

What is scrooge’s attitude to the poor?

What quotes suggest scrooge’s attitude about the poor?

Answer 2

He dislikes the poor and believes they have put themselves there

‘If they had rather die they better had do it, and decrease the surplus population’
‘are there no prisons? are there no union workhouses?’
I cant afford to make idle people merry.