Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol Read the following extract from Chapter 1 and then answer the question that follows.
In this extract the narrator is introducing us to the characters of Scrooge and Marley
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MARLEY was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt
Whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the
clergyman, the cerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner
Scrooge signed it And Scrooge's name was good upon
"Change for anything he chose to put his hand to
Old Marley was as dead as a door nail Mind I don't
mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is
particularly dead about a door nail I might have been inclined
myself to regard a contin-nal as the deadest piece of
ronmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in
the simile and my hallowed hands shall not disturb of the
Countys done for You will therefore permit me to repeat
emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nal
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could
be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know
how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole
administrator, his sole assign is sole residuary legatehes
soleted, and sole mourner And even Scrooge was not so
dreally cut up by the sad event, but he was an excellent
man of business on the very day of the funeral and solemnised
with an undoubted bargain
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0 Scrooge is presented as a powerful, yet solitaryture at the start of the novel
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