CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Scrooge is described as a tight-fisted, squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner, hard and sharp as flint, secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. He is portrayed as cold and unfeeling.
SCROOGE
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.