compassionate; he accepts his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner, provides for Cratchit and his family, and donates to the charity fund. From then, he is said to have become the embodiment of the Christmas spirit and became a "second father" to Tiny Tim.

Origins

Several theories have been put forward as to where Dickens got the inspiration for the character:

Ebenezer Lennox was supposedly a merchant from Edinburgh who won a catering contract for King George IV's

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