Question

Which sentence best demonstrates the hostile relationship that Scrooge has with society at the beginning of A Christmas Carol?














A.


"Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark forever."











B.


"A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin."











C.


"It was cold, bleak, biting weather, foggy withal, and he could hear the people in the court go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and sta