Ebenezer scrooge is a cross,miserable,mean old man. when his nephew visits him on christmas Eve to wish him a merry christmas,Scrooge's is not at all pleased 'Bah! Humbug!' he says. Christmas is humbug! Everyone who goes around saying "merry christmas" should have his tongue cut out. Yes, he should!' Oh yes, Scrooge is a hard mean men. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, gets only fifteen shillings a week and has to work in a cold little office with a fire too small to warm even his toes.