In the film, the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge his moment of death, in which the person watching over him is concerned only with stealing his ring. The vision ends with a quick shot of his gravestone. The film portrayal differs greatly from the story, which doesn’t include a scene of Scrooge’s death. Instead, when the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge his future, Scrooge only hears people talking about the death of a rich man and finds thieves fighting over his belongings. No one in the story seems to care that the man is dead—in fact, some people celebrate. Finally, Scrooge realizes that he is the dead man. The differences in the two works might be due to the difficulty of a short silent film to show indirect references to an event. Even if the film were longer, the number of title cards needed would interrupt the flow of the action.
