Summarize what Marleys ghost tells Scrooge about the afterlife. Scrooge responds, But you were always a good man of business, Jacob. What...

The ghost of Jacob
Marley tells his old
partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, that, in the afterlife, he is like a
"captive,
bound, and double-ironed," because he is not only imprisoned by his heavy

chains, but he is also bound by the knowledge of the good that he could have done and
chose not
to do while he was alive. He knows what the living do not, that
each of us will never completely
live up to how useful and kind we can be to
others; our lives are simply too short for us to
develop all our goodness.
Marley did not realize until he died that, while he lived, he
squandered his
"life's opportunity" to help and assist others and to do good and
generous
deeds in the world.

When...