Dickens uses the story `A Christmas Carol' to teach us about what he considered to be the real meaning of Christmas. He was concerned about the nature of greed in the Victorian community. The growth of the industry had allowed people to prosper and move up the class structure. The gap between rich and poor was getting further and further apart. The middle class people wanted to emulate the upper classes and become more greedy.

Dickens illustrates how self-serving, insensitive people can be converted into charitable and caring ones, through religious lessons. Warmth, generosity, and overall goodwill overcome Scrooge's bitterness as he encounters and learns from his memory, the ability to help others, and his fear of death.

In the beginning of the book dickens shows us that scrooge is a selfish and greedy old man by writing `scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner' Dickens...