Please answer following questions, use the extract below to help. 1) What are your first impressions of Scrooge?
2) Why does Dickens link Scrooge to coldness? Find a quote to support your answer.
3) Why do you think that Dickens has used a series of adjectives to describe Scrooge in the first two lines?
4) How does this description add to the bleak and dark atmosphere of the novella?

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out a generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.