What does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal about scrooge’s childhood? “why, it’s ali baba! ” scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy. “it’s dear old honest ali baba! yes, yes, i know! one christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. poor boy! and valentine,” said scrooge, “and his wild brother, orson; there they go! and what’s his name, who was put down in his drawers, asleep, at the gate of damascus; don’t you see him! and the sultan’s groom turned upside down by the genii; there he is upon his head! serve him right. i’m glad of it. what business had he to be married to the princess! ” a. he used his imagination to combat his loneliness. b. he dramatized fictional stories with his childhood friends. c. he read his favorite tales to his younger sister, fan. d. he honored his fictional heroes by writing poems about them.

The correct answer is A.

Scrooge lives traumatized, with feelings of hostility, anger, resentment, irritability or anger and, possibly, desires of revenge for those who took him to this situation. All this, causes a distrés clinically significantly, with the deterioration of his social, labor relations as well as of other areas of the functioning of the personality. It produces him significant frustration and existential disappointment, with a penetrating and persistent bitterness. This way, Scrooge turns into a solitary person with possible narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive features and schizoids.

Scrooge is a personage emotionally hurt due to the mentioned traumatic losses in his infancy. His mother died during his childbearing and he was pushed back by his disconsolate father, who was blaming him for the death of his mother. Being still young, Ebenezer decides to move away deliberately from its wife – the one who loves him and whom he also loves - to devote himself to his business and to turn into a successful man, with money … and embittered, without empathy or compassion.