A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: Character Summary
EBENEZER SCROOGE: a miserly, money-hungry businessman
BOB CRATCHIT: Scrooge’s clerk
FRED: Scrooge’s nephew
TINY TIM: the lame son of the Cratchits
PETER CRATCHIT: the Cratchit’s eldest son
MRS. CRATCHIT: Bob Cratchit’s wife
JACOB MARLEY: Scrooge’s business partner who died seven years ago
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
TWO PORTLY GENTLEMEN: two men raising money for the poor
FRAN: Scrooge’s little sister and Fred’s mother
MR. FEZZIWIG: Scrooge’s first employer
MRS. FEZZIWIG: Mr. Fezziwig’s wife
DICK WILKINS: another apprentice at Fezziwig’s establishment
BELLE: a woman Scrooge had been engaged to in his youth
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: the first of the spirits foretold by Marley who shows Scrooge his past Christmases.
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: the second of the spirits foretold by Marley that shows Scrooge Christmas celebrations in the present time
BELINDA CRATCHIT: the Cratchit’s second daughter
LITTLE BOY CRATCHIT: another Cratchit son
LITTLE GIRL CRATCHIT: another Cratchit daughter
MARTHA CRATCHIT: the eldest daughter of the Cratchit’s
FRED’S WIFE: the wife of Scrooge’s nephew
PLUMP SISTER: the sister of Fred’s wife
TOPPER: a guest of Fred’s, who is in love with the plump sister
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME: the third spirit foretold by Marley that shows Scrooge Christmases in the Future
OLD JOE: a pawnshop owner
CHARWOMAN: Scrooge’s housekeeper
MRS. DILBER: Scrooge’s laundress
UNDERTAKER’S MAN: a man who has no ethics about stealing from the dead
CAROLINE AND HER HUSBAND: two people who owed money to Scrooge who are happy when he dies
BOY: the boy Scrooge sends to buy the big prize turkey
BELLE'S HUSBAND: a man who sees Scrooge on the night Marley dies