Jacob Marley (died 24 December 1836) is a fictional character whose ghost appears in the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.
In life, Marley was the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge. As teenagers, both men had apprenticed in business and met as clerks (presumably in accounting) in another business. The firm of Scrooge and Marley was a nineteenth century financial institution, probably a counting house, as Marley refers to their offices a...
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Jacob Marley (died 24 December 1836) is a fictional character whose ghost appears in the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.
In life, Marley was the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge. As teenagers, both men had apprenticed in business and met as clerks (presumably in accounting) in another business. The firm of Scrooge and Marley was a nineteenth century financial institution, probably a counting house, as Marley refers to their offices as 'our money-changing hole'. They have become successful bankers, with seats on the London Stock Exchange; they are also stockholders and directors of at least one major association, but a vast amount of their wealth has been accumulated through usurious moneylending. Scrooge is described as Marley's "sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner". He has been dead seven years by the time the story begins.
Jacob Marley preys upon Scrooge's mind in a variety of different...
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