What is the name of the miserly main character in A Christmas Carol?

The miserly main character in A Christmas Carol is Ebenezer Scrooge. At the beginning of Charles Dickens’s novella, Scrooge is a wealthy but cold-hearted businessman who despises Christmas, rejects charity and treats his clerk Bob Cratchit harshly.

Scrooge’s transformation begins on Christmas Eve, when he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Three further spirits—Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come—force him to confront his lonely childhood, the suffering caused by his greed and the bleak fate awaiting him.

By morning, Scrooge becomes generous and sociable, promising to help the Cratchit family and support those in need. His name has since entered everyday English as a term for a miser or Christmas-hater. Readers sometimes confuse him with Marley, whose ghost begins the supernatural warning, or Fezziwig, the benevolent employer shown in Scrooge’s past.