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What is the setting of the story A Christmas Carol?

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Setting is used to tell the story of A Christmas Carol, showing Ebenezer Scrooge's progression from greed to kindness. The entire story is set in Victorian England, a time that Dickens was critical of throughout his career because of the great inequities between rich and poor. read more

The setting of A Christmas Carol is not determined so much by the physical surroundings of a dismal life in Victorian England, where there is great disparity between rich and poor, but by the conditions of Ebenezer Scrooge's life, his bare existence. read more

Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder, too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be: struck up a sturdy song. read more

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