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Christmas Carol Quotes
- Marley was dead, to begin with. There as no doubt whatever about that.
- Establishes early on this fact otherwise nothing will come of the future story. Dickens himself even makes this point.
- Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
- Repition of sole shows how lonely Marley was. Scrooge has not yet learned from this.
- Oh! But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wreching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
- Verb list gives the impression that the general public have a great opinion on Scrooge. He is a well known figure.
- Reference to grindstone shows that he is grinding down his employees.