By Titus Techera, The Imaginative Conservative - It is insufficient to say that the protagonist who learns to change his ways, Ebenezer Scrooge, is greedy. Were we to add that he is thrifty, industrious, and successful in his chosen profession, that would serve to complicate the picture, but would not cut to the core. Scrooge is a modern individualist, one who believes that in his private life no one can make claims on his substance or time.