Christmas Carol
... It was the first and best of his Christmas books, A Christmas Carol, which caught on at once and has become his most widely known piece (galegroup 21). In the story A Christmas Carol Dickens tries to show how a man can change he outlook on life in a one night chain of events. After losing his partner Marley, Scrooge, the main character, develops a hatred for joy and happiness and especially for the Christmas spirit. His hatred for Christmas is displayed in a statement to his nephew, “Merry Christmas! ... You’re poor enough…every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas, on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. ... It is also a world of sunlit days and Christmas dinners; a world of merrymaking and goodwill; a world of lovable eccentrics” (Wright, Reg, et al 24).