Day: April 24, 2020
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL: In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge
Charles Dickens’ immortal A Christmas Carol, the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy tyrant oppressing his long-suffering clerk, unworthy of his fair maiden’s affections, detested by debtors he holds under his thumb, and the bane of Christmas revelers the world over. …or is he? In the 1936 opus The Crack Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald…