Marley tells Scrooge at the beginning of the story that his chain can be unmade.
“How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.” It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. “That is no light part of my penance,” pursued the Ghost. “I am here to-night to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”
But I agree, the story is about all of the people he helped with his change of heart. And Tiny Tim. God bless us, everyone.
