What is the name of the miser in A Christmas Carol?

The miser in A Christmas Carol is Ebenezer Scrooge. He is a wealthy London businessman whose obsession with money has made him stingy, isolated, and hostile to Christmas.

At the beginning of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, Scrooge refuses to help the poor, dismisses Christmas as foolishness, and treats his underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit harshly. His transformation begins when he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

These visits force Scrooge to confront his lonely past, the suffering around him, and the bleak legacy his greed is creating. He awakens determined to change, becoming generous toward Cratchit and the Cratchit family, including the ill Tiny Tim.

A common mix-up is Jacob Marley, who is a ghost and former partner rather than the miser himself. Scrooge's name has become a general term for a miserly, joyless person.