"'Merry Christmas'! What right have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
"Come, then", returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? You're rich enough."
With his world-famous story A Christmas Carol , Charles Dickens humorously demonstrates that money alone does not buy happiness. His protagonist, grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge, is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The spine-chilling night visitors confront the old miser with his cold-heartedness. When Scrooge awakes th ...