Stave 1 Flashcards
“Squeezing, wrenching…”
“Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
Asyndetic list, verbs, all connected with the hands, gripping tightly to everything he has, selfish, miserly, ill-mannered, egoistical
“Oh! … Tight-…”
“Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone”
Oh = Narrator is overwhelmed at how outrageously unpleasant Scrooge is
A man who doesn’t spend money without good reason
“The cold within him…”
“The cold within him froze his old features”
Symbolises him being cold-hearted
“Hard and…”
“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;”
“solitary as”
“solitary as an oyster”
“Scrooge was his sole executor…”
“Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and his sole mourner”
“Bah…”
“Bah! Humbug”
“To edge his way along the crowded paths of life”
“To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance”
“of all the good days in the year,”
“on Christmas Eve”
“all in a glow”
“face ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled”
“Scrooge had a very small fire”
“but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room”
“What right have you”
“to be merry?”
“What right have you”
“to be dismal?”
“boiled with his own pudding,”
“and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!”
“Want is keenly felt, and Abundance”
“rejoices”
“If they would rather die…”
“If they would rather die…they better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“Be here all the earlier”
“the next morning”
“of cash-boxes, ledgers, keys
“and heavy purses wrought in steel”
“There’s more of gravy”
“than of grave about you”
“I wear the chain”
“I forged in life”
“Speak comfort”
“to me, Jacob!”
“But you were always a good”
“man of business, Jacob”, faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
“Mankind was my business!”
“a drop in the comprehensive ocean” of his business
“He tried to say Humbug!”
“but stopped at the first syllable”
