In Charles Dickens’ novel “A Christmas Carol,” who was Ebenezer Scrooge’s dead business partner?
Bob Cratchit
Mr. Fezziwig
Jacob Marley
Dick Wilkins
Jacob Marley is a fictional character who appears in the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He is Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, damned to wander the earth forevermore as punishment for his greedy, selfish and uncaring attitude towards mankind. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his ways or face a similar fate. It is Marley who arranges for the three spirits to visit Scrooge and gives him his opportunity for redemption.
The correct answer is Jacob Marley.