Why Does Scrooge Not Like Christmas

Scrooge does not like Christmas

because he has many negative memories associated with it.

When
Scrooge is talking to Fred and the men collecting for charity,
he tells them all kinds of
reasons why he hates Christmas.  It costs him
money because his employees get a day off.  Idle
people expect to be taken
care of.  Christmas is expensive.  Scrooge scolds Fred on celebrating

Christmas.

Merry Christmas! Out upon merry
Christmas!
What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without
money; a time for finding
yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a
time for balancing your books and having every
item in em through a round
dozen of months presented dead against you? (Stave One)

These all seem like good reasons to hate Christmas for a
man like
him.  They are logical and support everything we know about
Scrooge.  However, when the ghosts
visit, we start to see the real reason
Scrooge hates Christmas.  He has had to deal with many
negative memories on
and near the day.

First of all, we learn that Scrooge
was
left alone at school during Christmas as a child.  After his mother died, it was only
his
father and sister.  His father just left him at his boarding school
instead of bringing him home
for the holidays like all of the other kids.  As
a result, Scrooge alone spent the holidays
miserably wishing he had company
other than books.  Something like that would definitely make a
person hate
Christmas.

It gets worse though.  After a relatively happy
period
where his father brought him home and apprenticed him to the cheerful
Mr. Fezziwig, Scrooge
received another blow right at Christmastime.  His
fianc© Belle dumped him.

You maythe
memory of what is past half makes me hope you will have
pain in this. A very,
very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as
an
unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the
life
you have chosen! (Stave One)

She
dumped him at
Christmastime, and ever since he has been alone.  That is
another reason to hate Christmas. 
Scrooge may have been more focused on
money than her, but you can tell from his reaction to
seeing Belle dumping
him that she really hurt him.

It does not end there. 
The
last terrible thing that happens to Scrooge on Christmas Eve is his partner and only
friend
Jacob Marley dying.  Although we know from the vision of Belle that
Scrooge did not even sit
with his friend as he was dying, we can tell from
his reaction to seeing and talking to Jacobs
ghost that he really cared about
his partner.  Jacob was pretty much all he had.  Jacob dying on
Christmas Eve
was just another in a long line of terrible things that happened to Scrooge
at
Christmas time.

Yes, there are plenty of unemotional
reasons why Scrooge
hates Christmas.  It costs money to celebrate it and no
one is working.  However, the truth
behind Scrooges dislike of the holiday
comes from all of thehe suffered during the season.  It
takes the
intervention of the ghosts to show him that he is actually not alone.  Even though
his
beloved sister died, she lives in his nephew.  He can become a part of
Bob Cratchits family, as
he was a part of Fezziwigs.  The holiday that was so
terrible for him in the past can become a
part of his future.