What is Jacob Marley?
'''Jacob Marley''' is a [[fictional character]] created by [[Charles Dickens]] for his 1843 [[novella]] [[A Christmas Carol]]. Marley was a [[greed]]y [[businessman]] and a [[friend]] and [[partner]] of [[Ebenezer Scrooge]]. After Marley [[die]]d his [[ghost]] haunted Scrooge and explained that since he never helped anyone when he was alive he had to fix that by helping people from the [[afterlife]] so he wouldn’t be [[chain]]ed up in [[contract]]s and [[ledger]]s for [[eternity]]. Marley’s ghost tries to scare Scrooge into becoming a better person so that Scrooge won’t have to suffer in the [[afterlife]]. When that doesn’t work, Marley decides to have three [[spirit]]s come to Scrooge for him, the [[Ghost of Christmas Past]], the [[Ghost of Christmas Present]] and the [[Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come]]. [[Category:Characters in written fiction]] [[Category:Movie characters]] [[Category:Fictional British people]] {{literature-stub}}