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“There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something that’s all”
Redemption
Starting to change from beginning
Regret
“I am not the man I was”
Redemption
Has become a different person
Asking for forgiveness
“I’m a light as a feather”
Contrast to the beginning of the play
He has been redeemed
"I’m as merry as a schoolboy”
He has been redeemed
He has stopped supressing his childhood
He feels all the joy he felt when he was a child
—> reference to beginning of play
‘‘As solitary as an oyster’’
He is alone
He has a hard outer shell but is still good inside
Stave 1
‘‘Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’’
Not charitable
Won’t let any money go
‘‘If they would rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’’
No regard for the poor
No responsibility
