Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserable, bitter old miser, unpopular, grumpy elderly male human who dislikes irrational things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas, until a trio of Ghosts shows him the error of his ways.
Scrooge is cold, hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
According to Shmoop.com, the cold is a part of him is not only changing what he looks like and how he moves, but also affecting his relationships—or lack thereof—with other people. Basically, he is an "oyster" with a shell made of his own low temperature.
Scrooge represents the Victorian rich who neglect the poor and think only of their own well-being. The most motivation the author provides for Scrooge's character is his depiction of him as a young boy; neglected by his peers and, it appears, by his father, the young Scrooge seemed determined to live only for himself as he aged.
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