Scrooge being unkind/resistant/stubborn

Question 1

Point- Scrooge being seen as isolated from society

Answer 1

1) “as solitary as an oyster”

2) “secret and self-contained”

Question 2

Point- Scrooge being extremely miserly and unwilling to show sacrifice for his disciples

Answer 2

1) “Scrooge kept the office cold, the clerk’s even colder- very much smaller”
2) “looked like one coal”
3) “Carried own low temperature”

Question 3

Point- Scrooge being extremely tough and emotionally turned off

Answer 3

1) “hard and sharp as flint”
2) “grasping, scraping, clutching”
3) “tight-fisted hand at the grindstone”