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An underpaid clerk working for Scrooge, Bob Cratchit represents the suffering and poor working conditions of the lower classes. In spite of the cruel treatment he endures at work for little pay, Bob does his job without complaint.
Bob Cratchit is Scrooge's clerk and works in unpleasant conditions without complaint. He obeys Scrooge's rules and is timid about asking to go home to his family early on Christmas Eve.
His overworked and underpaid employee, Bob Cratchit (Mickey Mouse), who Scrooge pays just a little extra to do his laundry, requests to have half of Christmas Day off, to which Scrooge reluctantly accepts on the condition that Cratchit is docked half a day's pay.
In stave 3, "The Second of the Three Spirits," of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Present has brought Ebenezer Scrooge to the Cratchit's humble home in Camden...
The Ghost of Christmas Past teaches Scrooge the value of reflecting on the past to become a better person. When Scrooge reflects on his time spent with Fezziwig he realises that he has been treating Bob Cratchit unfairly. He reveals to the Spirit that he wishes he could “say a word or two to his clerk right now” .
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Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era . In the novel.
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Bob is a prime example of the virtues of Christmas and provides the antidote to Scrooge. He is also a symbol of forgiveness – he toasts to Scrooge, despite his horrible work conditions, and in the face of Scrooge’s eventual remorse, is open and accepting rather than bitter.
