Additional quotes → Scrooge

Question 1

“hard and sharp as flint”

Answer 1

1 → flint sparks upon being hit, still has potential to change - starts a fire - Scrooge has warmth, needs an external force to make this “spark”
2 → can hurt others, and not just himself - sharpness

Question 2

“he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay”

Answer 2

1 → starting to regress into his younger self, now a boy, soon to be a baby

2 → begging is a loss of emotional control - this hard outer shell scrooge ones had is starting to dissapate

Question 3

“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family”

Answer 3

1→ unmagnimaous nature of himself as been reverted NGL

2 → personal, direct address, cares about Bob Crachtic and does not dismiss him as just a “clerk” now