In the beginning of the story Scrooge is a horrible man. All he wanted was money and nothing to do with anybody else or Christmas. He was greedy, mean, and outright rude. He took no pitty of the poor and thought that they may as well die. He cared for no one besides himself.
The night that Jacob Marley’s ghost came back was the night Ebenezer changed. Marley told scrooge if he did