To my great shame, I haven’t read the book, but based on the different movie adaptations I’ve seen, another interpretation could be simply that he ate some dinner that disagreed with him, and then just had some bad dreams for the second panel.
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
on second notes: i have been waiting, uh, 10,480 days to use that pun. i even started cooking fancy french gravies at holiday meals and family dinners. does anyone compliment my gravies? no. they always compliment my sauces so i have to wait.
I have read it many times and I agree that the story is about a dream/nightmare Ebeneezer has on Christmas Eve. I always saw the story as an old rich man had who does not have much longer to live reflects on his life. He decides he still has time to try and change with what little time he has left.
I think it really could have been framed many ways. Many people reflect on their lives on New Year’s Eve or their birthdays. I think Dickens just decided to choose Christmas for his story.
EDIT: In short, man nearing end of life has existential crisis in dream.
To my great shame, I haven’t read the book, but based on the different movie adaptations I’ve seen, another interpretation could be simply that he ate some dinner that disagreed with him, and then just had some bad dreams for the second panel.
on second notes: i have been waiting, uh, 10,480 days to use that pun. i even started cooking fancy french gravies at holiday meals and family dinners. does anyone compliment my gravies? no. they always compliment my sauces so i have to wait.
28.69 (nice) years is a long way. Good gravy.
I have read it many times and I agree that the story is about a dream/nightmare Ebeneezer has on Christmas Eve. I always saw the story as an old rich man had who does not have much longer to live reflects on his life. He decides he still has time to try and change with what little time he has left.
I think it really could have been framed many ways. Many people reflect on their lives on New Year’s Eve or their birthdays. I think Dickens just decided to choose Christmas for his story.
EDIT: In short, man nearing end of life has existential crisis in dream.