Ebenezer Scrooge becomes a new man; experiencing new emotions throughout the novel "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens and teaches him valuable lessons. To show these emotions he had to go through many different adventures and events that he never seen through this perspective before. In the beginning of the book Scrooge had no compassion for others and only cared about himself. When he saw the ghost of Christmas future, he felt a huge amount of fear that was to come for him if he didn't change. At the end of the novel Scrooges experiences paid off and he had felt joy for the first time in his life. Scrooge had been an old, bitter man all of his life and had no compassion for others, especially at Christmas time. "Oh but he was a tight-fisted hand in the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!  (2, Dickens) He had never smiled and had a strict look upon his face all the time. "The cold within him froze his own features" (2, Dickens). He did not care about anyone else but himself and his business. People wouldn't even stop to ask him how he was doing because they knew he would not care. He had pushed all of his family away except for his nephew Fred. Fred came into Scrooge's cold, dark office on Christmas Eve shouting Merry Christmas! Scrooge thought that Christmas was a waste of time and that giving to the poor was a waste of money. He did not feel that there was anything merry about it as well. "What right do you have to be merry?" (4, Dickens). He had become annoyed with his cousin because he didn't believe that the things he had done were worth being done. Scrooge asked Fred why he got married and Fred told him that he fell in love. Scrooge thought that love and marriage was a waste of time and that making money was the only thing worth living for. "Because you fell in love!...as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christma