Femineity Flashcards
About the plump sister being objectified
‘The way he went after the plump sister in the lace was an outrage on the credulity of human nature’
About Belle being worth less than money
‘Another idol has displaced me […] a golden one’
About Belle being there to please Scrooge
‘If it [money] can cheer and comfort you in time to come as I would have tried to do , I have no just cause to greive’
About Fan’s femininity
‘She clapped her hands and laughed, and tried to touch his head; but, being too little laughed again’
About Ignorance more important than Want
‘but most of all beware of this boy’
About Bob’s wife having no name
‘Then rose up Mrs Crachit, Crachit’s wife’
Fan is Scrooge’s younger sister. She is a good influence on him but her death helps make him even more miserable and miserly. She has a generous character and begs her father to let her come and take the young Ebenezer home for Christmas from school.
‘I’ve come to take you home, dear brother! Home, home, home!’
Mrs Cratchit portrays someone poor but bravely bearing it with a will. She says she would like to give Scrooge ‘a piece of her mind’ when Bob toasts him as the ‘Founder of the Feast’
‘dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence’
Caroline is a debtor to Scrooge and they cannot pay the rent for their house. Her husband returns and tells her their landlord, Scrooge, is dead. They are thankful for they cannot have a more merciless creditor than him.
‘Are we quite ruined?’
