Scrooge sees businessmen discussing the dead man's riches, some vagabonds trading his personal effects for cash, and a poor couple expressing relief at the death of their unforgiving creditor. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come leads Scrooge through a sequence of mysterious scenes relating to an unnamed man's recent death.
He vanishes instantly as Scrooge notices a dark, hooded figure coming toward him. Toward the end of the day, he shows Scrooge two starved children, Ignorance and Want, living under his coat.
As the day passes, the spirit ages, becoming noticeably older. Scrooge finds the jovial gathering delightful and pleads with the spirit to stay until the very end of the festivities. The specter then zips Scrooge to his nephew's to witness the Christmas party. He discovers Bob Cratchit's crippled son, Tiny Tim, a courageous boy whose kindness and humility warms Scrooge's heart. Scrooge watches the large, bustling Cratchit family prepare a miniature feast in its meager home. The Ghost of Christmas Present, a majestic giant clad in a green fur robe, takes Scrooge through London to unveil Christmas as it will happen that year. Scrooge, deeply moved, sheds tears of regret before the phantom returns him to his bed. Invisible to those he watches, Scrooge revisits his childhood school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his engagement to Belle, a woman who leaves Scrooge because his lust for money eclipses his ability to love another. The spirit escorts Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from the curmudgeon's earlier years.
He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past, a strange childlike phantom with a brightly glowing head. After the wraith disappears, Scrooge collapses into a deep sleep. Marley informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during each of the next three nights. Marley hopes to save Scrooge from sharing the same fate. As punishment for his greedy and self-serving life his spirit has been condemned to wander the Earth weighted down with heavy chains. Marley, looking haggard and pallid, relates his unfortunate story. Later that evening, after returning to his dark, cold apartment, Scrooge receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness and venom, spitting out an angry "Bah! Humbug!" in response to his nephew's "Merry Christmas!" Two portly gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve.
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