NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHRISTMAS
Scrooge expresses a strong negative attitude towards Christmas, calling it a time for paying bills without money and wishing ill upon those who celebrate it. He is described as indignant and resolute in his dislike for the holiday.
SCROOGE
Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas-time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'