This document provides symbolic descriptions of Ebenezer Scrooge through metaphors and imagery. It describes him as hard and unyielding like flint, secretive and solitary like an oyster. Scrooge is depicted as frosty and cold, carrying his own low temperature. References to warmth, fire and fog are used symbolically. Scrooge keeps only a very small fire while others have even less, suggesting he gives little comfort or support. He is portrayed as tightfisted, a hand that forces others to endure long hours of difficult work like using a grindstone.
This document provides symbolic descriptions of Ebenezer Scrooge through metaphors and imagery. It describes him as hard and unyielding like flint, secretive and solitary like an oyster. Scrooge is depicted as frosty and cold, carrying his own low temperature. References to warmth, fire and fog are used symbolically. Scrooge keeps only a very small fire while others have even less, suggesting he gives little comfort or support. He is portrayed as tightfisted, a hand that forces others to endure long hours of difficult work like using a grindstone.
This document provides symbolic descriptions of Ebenezer Scrooge through metaphors and imagery. It describes him as hard and unyielding like flint, secretive and solitary like an oyster. Scrooge is depicted as frosty and cold, carrying his own low temperature. References to warmth, fire and fog are used symbolically. Scrooge keeps only a very small fire while others have even less, suggesting he gives little comfort or support. He is portrayed as tightfisted, a hand that forces others to endure long hours of difficult work like using a grindstone.
This document provides symbolic descriptions of Ebenezer Scrooge through metaphors and imagery. It describes him as hard and unyielding like flint, secretive and solitary like an oyster. Scrooge is depicted as frosty and cold, carrying his own low temperature. References to warmth, fire and fog are used symbolically. Scrooge keeps only a very small fire while others have even less, suggesting he gives little comfort or support. He is portrayed as tightfisted, a hand that forces others to endure long hours of difficult work like using a grindstone.
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Flint:
Hard and sharp:
“Hard and sharp as
flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;”
Generous fire: Secret, and self- Oyster: contained:
“Secret, and self-
contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
Solitary: Frosty: (Metaphor)
“A frosty rime was on his
head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him”
Carried his own low
temperature: Warmth: (symbolism)
“No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him”
Warmth and cold:
(symbolism) Cold: (mood/ atmosphere)
“It was cold, bleak,
biting weather: foggy withal”
Foggy: (symbolic of…)
Fire: (Symbolism)
“Scrooge had a very
small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.” Glow: (Suggests what?)
“He was all in a glow;
his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked.” Good: (Meaning according to Fred)
“I believe that it has
done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” Good:
“Let me leave it alone,
then,” said Scrooge. “Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!” Tightfisted: Grindstone: -greedy -(literal) a device -Not willing to let that sharpens knives go of his money or -(figurative) hard or possessions painful work "But he was a tight- fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!"
Hand at the…: Meaning: -controlling the… -Scrooge is a (grindstone) greedy man who -making other forces people to people use the work long hours (grindstone) and suffer
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