The spirit escorts Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from the curmudgeon's earlier years. He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past, a strange childlike phantom with a brightly glowing head. After the wraith disappears, Scrooge collapses into a deep sleep. Marley informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during each of the next three nights. Marley hopes to save Scrooge from sharing the same fate. As punishment for his greedy and self-serving life his spirit has been condemned to wander the Earth weighted down with heavy chains. Marley, looking haggard and pallid, relates his unfortunate story. Later that evening, after returning to his dark, cold apartment, Scrooge receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness and venom, spitting out an angry "Bah! Humbug!" in response to his nephew's "Merry Christmas!" Two portly gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve.
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