BUSINESS COMMUNITY
The merchants are depicted as a business community, discussing the death of an unnamed individual and the fate of his money, highlighting their focus on commerce and wealth.
MERCHANTS
'on 'Change, amongst the merchants, who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals, and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often.' 'No,' said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, 'I don't know much about it either way. I only know he's dead.' 'What has he done with his money?' asked a red-faced gentleman...'