You ever think about how Fred in A Christmas Carol doesn't have a last name Ebenezer Scrooge has a last name, Bob Cratchit has a last name, Jacob Marley has a last name, but the human character with next-highest billing does not
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His last name *isn't* Scrooge because he's the child of Scrooge's sister so he would've inherited his father's last name It's implied that Fan died in childbirth with him, and that's part of why Scrooge quietly resents him and doesn't want anything to do with him
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But we don't know anything about his dad -- Did his dad run off? Did his dad also die young? Did his dad live to a ripe old age and die very recently and Scrooge didn't bother showing up at the funeral? -- and nobody ever mentions his surname at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect
idk much about English lastnames but isn’t the idea that as a pauper he doesn’t really have a name of his own—no sort of vaunted lineage?
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Replying to @Polit_eurOpines
...It's the 19th century, everyone had a last name, and Fred isn't even actually that poor -- he owns a big house where he throws a lavish party Scrooge throws it in his face that he's "poor" because Scrooge is an asshole and a millionaire
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The usual fanon for Scrooge's "You're poor enough!" line is that Fred is probably in debt, as many middle-class people are -- buying his house on a mortgage -- and as a stereotype of the Protestant work ethic of the time Scrooge considers this a huge moral failing
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