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What does hard and sharp as flint mean?

Joe Ford

What does hard and sharp as flint mean?

Scrooge

Who says hard and sharp as flint?

Mr Dickens has told us here that Scrooge is ‘hard and sharp as flint’ and ‘solitary as an oyster’.

WHAT DOES A frosty rime was on his head mean?

Mr Dickens tell us that Scrooge is a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. He emphasises this with the metaphor ‘a frosty rime was on his head’ The frost doesn’t settle upon anyone’s head (unless they’re dead) but here Mr Dickens is telling us again how cold and miserable and indeed, how deathly, Scrooge is.

How does Dickens present Scrooge in Stave 1 quotes?

  • “Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name”
  • ” a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner”
  • “Hard and sharp as flint”
  • “solitary as an oyster”
  • “which no steel had ever struck out generous fire”
  • “A frosty rime was on his head”
  • “The cold within him froze his features”

Who does Scrooge think should die?

Men like Malthus and Scrooge believed that war, famine and pestilence were necessary in order to keep the population down, especially the poor people. What he means by this is pretty nasty — he means that the poor people should just go off and die.

Are there no prisons Christmas carol?

“Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge. “Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,” said Scrooge.

Why did Fred get married in a Christmas carol?

Role in the the novel Fred mentions that he and his wife married for love rather than money, something that Ebenezer Scrooge cannot comprehend despite being in love with a woman back in his youth.

Why does Scrooge reject Fred?

Scrooge resists Fred’s invitation and his desire to be his family because he resents him. Fred is the son of his only sister Fan, who died giving birth to her son. Scrooge’s father resented him in the same way, because his mother died giving him life.