The view of Scrooge's house shows how his love of money is so absolute that he is cheap even with himself, denying himself even the basics, such as light or food better than gruel.
Scrooge bends over his weak fire. After a long minute of this cacophony , the bells stop and are replaced by a clanking noise, coming closer and closer. Scrooge remembers hearing ghost stories of spirits dragging chains. Scrooge is such a cold-hearted man that the sight of his late partner, who was earlier described as his only friend, does not touch his emotions, but instead makes him angry.
The ghost appears just as Scrooge remembers Jacob Marley , except that he is totally transparent and carries a huge chain about him. He demands to know who the ghost is and the ghost answers that he was Jacob Marley when he was living.
Scrooge refuses to believe in Marley, just as he refuses to believe in Christmas. Marley represents a kind of family for Scrooge, even though they are not blood-related. Christmas is a time of family, and despite his scary appearance, we get the feeling that Marley is here to help. Scrooge asks Marley to sit. He wonders, because of his transparency, if he is able to sit, but Marley takes the seat with ease and confronts Scrooge about his disbelief, asking him why he doubts his senses.
Marley's questions and Scrooge's answers about the senses are important. Scrooge doesn't live by his senses in any aspect of his life. He cares only about making money, and does not care or notice if it is cold or uncomfortable, and he takes no interest in anyone else.
Scrooge sees the senses as pointless, as easily fooled or manipulated. He believes solely in money. And yet the way he denies the truth with joke-making, shows his fear. At this, Marley shakes his chain and makes a terrifying sound. Scrooge admits that he believes now but questions why a ghost should come to pursue him. Marley explains that he is destined to walk the earth to change the wrongs he failed to change in life — the chain represents this self-made trail of regrets.
Marley warns Scrooge that he is making a terrible chain for himself. Scrooge asks for comfort, but Marley cannot give any. He says it is not his job to bring comfort. Yet we have heard that Marley was at least somewhat generous in his lifetime. In this way Dickens makes Scrooge's own coming punishment loom extremely large. Marley brings only warnings; he cannot himself help Scrooge. Marley cannot stay long, with many journeys ahead of him. Scrooge jokes that he must have been wandering slowly, having taken seven years to get here, but Marley says he has travelled incredible lengths — there is much remorse in the world.
Marley is affronted at this phrase. He says business is nothing in comparison to the trade of human woes that he deals in. Marley's purgatorial afterlife is described as a wasteland of endless journeying. Part of the lesson that Scrooge must learn is that life is short but regrets are long and haunting, and have an affect even after death. Note also Marley's disgust at the connection of the words "good" and "business", which Scrooge also used earlier in his conversation with Fred. Marley is not saying business is inherently bad, but he is saying that it is terrifically small and narrow in comparison to the rest of life, and certainly that business success is not enough to right any wrongs one commits in life.
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