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Ebenezer Scrooge
A Christmas Carol · Charles Dickens
Author textScrooge has a pointed nose, shrivelled cheeks, red eyes, blue lips, and a frost-covered wiry chin.
Based on: Dickens’s opening description.FaceLore
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Ebenezer Scrooge
The miser whose encounters with three spirits force him to confront isolation and change.
Based on the author's description
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From the author's text
Ebenezer Scrooge begins as a wealthy, solitary miser who rejects charity, family, and Christmas. The spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come reveal the emotional cost of his choices.
Where this comes from: Dickens gives a detailed physical portrait: old features, pointed nose, shrivelled cheek, red eyes, thin blue lips, frosted hair and brows, and a wiry chin.
What the author tells us
- He is old.
- His nose is pointed.
- His cheeks are shrivelled.
- His eyes are red.
- His lips are thin and blue.
- His gait is stiff.
- Frost-like white hair covers his head, brows, and wiry chin.
- His voice is grating.
What the author leaves to the reader
- Exact height.
- Exact eye color beyond redness.
- Exact natural hair color before age.
- A single fixed coat design.
Based on:
- Dickens’s opening description.
- The counting-house setting before his transformation.
- No actor or adaptation likeness.
From the text
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Project Gutenberg+
primary textual appearance evidence
What it supports: Nose, cheeks, eyes, lips, gait, hair, eyebrows, chin, and voice.
Appearance quote: “nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek”
Limits: Dickens uses metaphor to make personality visible in the body.
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Scrooge has a pointed nose, shrivelled cheeks, red eyes, blue lips, and a frost-covered wiry chin.
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