Scrooge Wasn't Greedy: Belle Dumped Ebenezer Because He Feared the Debtors' Prisons So Much That He Couldn't Commit.

She Held Up Her End of the Bargain and He Didn't. A Tragic Love Story Defined By the Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie in Early-Industrial Revolution England

He Couldn’t Commit to a Ring, a House, and Kids: Ebenezer and Belle, Looked Upon by Old Fozziweg in A Muppet Christmas Carol.

For me, one of best passages in all of Dickens is Belle’s break-up with Ebenezer Scrooge. Read in its 1843 London context, the passage deepens Scrooge beyond just a greedy miser: His unwillingness to commit to Belle has a cold, …