摘要：
In spite of the supernatural trappings of Charles Dickens's most famous work, A Christmas Carol, critics from G. K. Chesterton to Edmund Wilson have found its equally famous protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, to be a real character, more fleshed-out and compelling than many of the characters of Dickens's longer, presumably more serious novels. Much of the reaction to A Christmas Carol and its protean anti-hero can be summarized by Stephen Prickett's succinct appraisal in his seminal study, Victorian Fantasy: The strength of A Christmas Carol lies quite simply in its psychological credibility (54). Scrooge is a character we can believe in, a character that, as Margaret Atwood suggests, remains fresh and vital. Scrooge Lives!' we might write on our T-shirts (xiii).
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