What does this excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens reveal about the character of Ebenezer Scrooge? “There’s the sa
ucepan that the gruel was in!” cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace. “There’s the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered! There’s the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat! There’s the window where I saw the wandering Spirits! It’s all right, it’s all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!” Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs! “I don’t know what day of the month it is!” said Scrooge. “I don’t know how long I’ve been among the Spirits. I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby. Never mind. I don’t care. I’d rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!” A. Scrooge feels happy to be alive and to have another chance to make things right in his life. B. Scrooge feels happy and relieved that he has escaped the Christmas ghosts and is back in his house. C. Scrooge laughs with joy as he realizes that his experience with the Christmas ghosts was only a dream. D. Scrooge returns home a greedier man after his experiences and doesn’t care if he acts like a miser.
The monologue details how the character realized that the journey was not a dream and that he is grasping the lessons from the ghosts, to begin a new life path. This is reflected in the following he says <em>“I don’t know how long I’ve been among the Spirits. I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby. Never mind. I don’t care. I’d rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!”</em>
