A Christmas Carol-Isolation

Question 1

Q: Which simile describes Scrooge’s loneliness?

Answer 1

A: “As solitary as an oyster.”

Question 2

Q: What shows that people avoid Scrooge?

Answer 2

A: “Nobody ever stopped him in the street.”

Question 3

Q: How does Scrooge behave in crowds to avoid connection?

Answer 3

A: “It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.”

Question 4

Q: How is Scrooge’s childhood described in terms of loneliness?

Answer 4

A: “‘A solitary child, neglected by his friends is left here still.’”
and
“A lonely boy was reading by a feeble fire.”

Question 5

Q: What does Belle say about the change in her relationship with Scrooge?

Answer 5

A: “‘Another idol has displaced me.’”
and
“‘I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two.’”

Question 6

Q: How does Belle’s husband describe Scrooge after their split?

Answer 6

A: “‘There he sat alone. Quite alone in the world.’”

Question 7

Q: How is Scrooge’s loneliness portrayed after his imagined death?

Answer 7

A: “‘Plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for.’”
and
“‘He lay in the dark empty house.’”