Ebenezer Scrooge
The most famous miser in literature as well as the most famous victim of a haunting. The Christmas-hating moneylender underpays his overworked clerk Bob Cratchit and treats everybody else with scornful contempt. He is warned by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley that unless he redeems himself by changing his ways, he is destined to wind up just like Jacob: “condemned to walk the earth forever, bound in the chains.”
Fred
Scrooge’s kind-hearted nephew who inherited all the sweetness and compassion of his mother—Ebenezer’s beloved sister Fan who dies shortly after giving birth with Ebenezer having rejected her request that he look out after Fred.
Tiny Tim Cratchit
Nicknamed Tiny Tim because of his diminutive size and sickly appearance, he is the youngest child of Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit. The unspeaking, ominous hooded Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come reveals to Scrooge in a vision of the following Christmas that Tiny Tim has not lived to see it.
The Spirit of Christmas Past
The first of three spirits which the ghost of Marley warned would visit Scrooge this Christmas Eve night takes old Scrooge back through time to reveal that as boy and young man he was not the Christmas-hating crone he’s become. Old Scrooge looks down at his younger self excitedly being told by Fan that their father wants him from school. Later a slightly older Ebenezer is shown enjoying a rollicking Christmas with his benevolent employer Fezziwig.
Alice
Also appearing in the visions of the past is Scrooge’s fiancé, Alice. When he begins becoming obsessed with money, she breaks their engagement and romantic love disappears from Scrooge’s life forever.
Mr. Jorkin
Scrooge’s turn toward becoming an obsessive miser is engendered by Mr. Jorkin. The caustic opposite of Fezziwig convinces young Ebenezer to betray the loyalty shown him by Fezziwig by leaving his employ to take a job with his. It is there that he meets and forms his partnership with Marley by saving the company after Jorkin’s embezzlement sent it into bankruptcy.
Spirit of Christmas Present
The Spirit of Christmas Present visits Scrooge between the visits by the spirits of the past and the future. He shows Scrooge how the Cratchits can enjoy the season despite having to live in poverty due to the low wages he pays Bob. He learns about Tiny Tim’s illness is emotionally stunned when the Cratchits refuse to toast him by name. The Spirit also shows Fred and his wife enjoying Christmas with friends before finally revealing whatever happened to Alice: ministering to the sick in a poorhouse.
Mrs. Dilber
Mrs. Dilber is Scrooge’s charwoman in the present-day. In the vision of Christmas yet to come, she is one of the three people who are planning to make a small profit off Scrooge’s death by pawning some of his possessions.
