ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -How did Ebenezer Scrooge make all his money in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol "? The prior answer described Scrooge’s business very well. Scrooge was a money lender or loan shark in modern parlance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Whatever the case, this establishes that Scrooge is a creditor who holds large debts from individuals. It also establishes that he has a reputation for foreclosing and ruining families like Caroline’s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite having considerable personal wealth, he underpays his clerk Bob Cratchit and hounds his debtors relentlessly while living cheaply and joylessly in the chambers of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Most of all, he detests Christmas, which he associates with reckless spending.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fezziwig appears early in the story, during Scrooge’s encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Past. Scrooge and the ghost visit Fezziwig’s workplace, where Scrooge was an apprentice, on Christmas Eve.

Detailed explanation-5: -As he appears in the original Dickens, Scrooge is a self-made small business owner. He is undeniably a buzzkill around the holidays.