![]() ![]() Accumulating and protecting their money seems to be their only goal, without using it for anything fun or joyful. Together, they accumulate much wealth, but continue to live like the miserly paupers we see in A Christmas Carol. ![]() Throughout most of the book, Marley is portrayed as the imaginative but debauched crook, while Scrooge is lost in his ledgers, peripherally aware of only some of his partner’s schemes. ![]() ![]() As he got older, his crimes got worse and he used the business partnership to mask involvement in illegal and immoral schemes, including involvement in the slave trade. The two met at boarding school, where Marley extorted money out of weak, gullible Scrooge. Although Christmas doesn’t figure prominently in the novel, come on – it has Scrooge in it!įrom the beginning of his relationship with Scrooge, Jacob Marley was by far the more nefarious of the two. December’s challenge was to read a book set during the holidays. I read Marley as part of the 12 Months of Reading Goodness challenge. Marley imagines what his back story might be. But other than that we don’t learn much about him. If you’ll recall from A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge in his house as a prelude to visits from the three main ghosts. Marley is an imaginative tale about Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner, Jacob Marley. ![]()
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