CHRISTMAS TALES: family and love

The story begins on Christmas Eve, exactly seven years after the death of Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's partner. Scrooge is a greedy and selfish old man, who despises Christmas and everything related to it. He does not care about others, the only thing that interests him is business and making money. He declines his nephew's invitation to have dinner with him and his family the next day, and refuses to give money to two men who ask him for a donation for the poor. Scrooge simply asks, 'Are there no prisons? Are there...