Bob Cratchit is a very thin and short fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Although a central figure of the tale, his passive character is overshadowed by that of Ebenezer Scrooge. A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is Charles Dickens little Christmas Book first published on December 19,[1] 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Ebenezer Scrooge encounters Ignorance and Want in A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. ...
Cratchit is Scrooge's employee, a low-paid clerk with a large family. Though he is treated poorly by Scrooge, Cratchit remains loyal to his boss despite the protestations of his wife. His youngest son, Tiny Tim,who is about to die, and it is partly through concern for his plight that Scrooge makes the transformation from miser to philanthropist. Cratchit is very poor, so he can't feed his family for Christmas dinner. Tiny Tim is a fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. ...
The name Cratchit is rooted in the word creche, which is a nativity scene or manger depicting the birth of Christ.
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Some early movie Cratchits followed this line, especially with 1935’s Donald Calthorp, but as time went by, Cratchit and his family were younger and younger, turning Bob from a middle-aged man in a dead-end job to a clerk who, with a few mores years of Scrooge on his resume, might have prospects left.
Cratchit’s character was also adapted over the years, in an attempt to make audiences sympathize with a character described by his detractors as cowardly and inept.
Cratchit objects to his calling the old skinflint “the founder of the feast.” In the original, Cratchit merely pleads the season — it is a time of good will to all — but in amplifying this, movie Cratchits go on to claim that Scrooge is good inside, or that business makes a man hard.
BobCratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage.
Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.
The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
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