The people in the community were talking about the dead man because the dead man was mean, bitter old, Scrooge from the counting house. The whole town was gossiping about Scrooge because they didn't care about how he treated others during his lifetime; just his stuff and his money. These examples and quotes are from from the text that describe the dead man everyone is talking about. Avoiding Mrs Dilber said, “If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, a wicked old screw,” - “why wasn’t he natural…
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