Character profile
Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol
Who is Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol? Scrooge's deceased business partner who returns as a ghost to warn him about his impending fate.
Also known as: Marley, Marley's Ghost, the ghost of Jacob Marley, the former partner
Who Jacob Marley is
Scrooge's deceased business partner who returns as a ghost to warn him about his impending fate.
Appearance
The SPECTRE of Scrooge's dead partner: a TRANSPARENT, SEE-THROUGH apparition glowing with a cold spectral light, the room's furniture and door visible straight through his body, his edges dissolving into vapour. His HAIR IS GHOSTLY WHITE — colourless, drifting slightly as if underwater — tied back in a pigtail. Deathly pale, sunken-eyed, in the waistcoat, tights and boots he was buried in, his jaw bound up in a white cloth. A ghostly chain of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks and ledgers is clasped about his middle and trails away, itself half-transparent. Unmistakably a ghost, never a solid living man; no dark or coloured hair.
