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Ebenezer Scrooge is the leading character in the novel, ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. Even though he had wealth, he pays a measly sum to his clerk and makes life trouble for people who owe him money. He lives cheap and sits on a piece of ham to avoid using the heater to warm it. He hates Christmas, which he associates with excessive spending.