Christmas Carol Summary Stave 2. As the stave opens we find scrooge confused because he is awoken by the clock chiming. He realizes that it is impossible for the hour to be midnight because it was almost two o clock when he went to sleep yet it is too dark for it to be noon.

He realizes that it is impossible for the hour to be midnight because it was almost two o clock when he went to sleep yet it is too dark for it to be noon. Start your 48 hour free trial to unlock this a christmas carol study guide. He worries over marley s ghost and wonders if it was a dream.

Past present and future the threat of time.

Two charity men also. He wonders if he slept through the day and into another night. He looks out the window to an empty scene. Scrooge is in his counting house it s christmas eve and he and his clerk bob cratchit are still working fred scrooge s nephew arrives to wish him merry christmas and to invite him to spend christmas with him but scrooge refuses rudely.