Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. Heoves money more than heoves his neighbour and exhibits downright meanness in the consummate dismissal of the plight of the poor. One cold Christmas eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to make him realize his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scroogeearns toove Christmas and the people all around him. With superbiterary treatments of Christian imagery, Dickens shows there is no better analogy for the human spirit of hope, which forms the message of A Christmas Carol. Even the hardest of hearts can soften and it is truly never tooate to transform despair into hope.ike Scrooge, people can change, sometimesiterally overnight.