Everything about Bob Cratchit totally explained
Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character, the abused, underpaid clerk of
Ebenezer Scrooge in the
Charles Dickens story
A Christmas Carol.
In the story, Cratchit is seen at work, where he copies letters by hand in an underheated "dismal little cell", "a sort of tank", and in his small
Camden Town home with his large family on the following
Christmas Day and a future one, gatherings which Scrooge visits invisibly with the
Ghost of Christmas Present and the
Ghost of Christmas Future, respectively. Cratchit is repeatedly described as "little", and clothes himself in a tattered white comforter, not being able to afford a coat.
Though Cratchit is treated poorly by Scrooge, and, with a weekly salary of "but fifteen
bob" (about
£56/
US$109 in
2005 money using the
consumer price index), isn't given wages enough to feed his family a proper Christmas dinner, he remains loyal to his boss, even in face of the protestations of his wife. It is partly through concern for the plight of Cratchit's youngest son, the frail and crippled
Tiny Tim, that Scrooge makes the transformation from miser to philanthropist, offering Cratchit a raise and "discussion of his affairs".
Children
Six Cratchit children are mentioned in the original story, four of whom are named:
- Martha, the eldest daughter, who works as an apprentice at a milliner's
- Belinda, the second daughter
- Peter, the heir, for whom his father is arranging employment at the weekly rate of 5.5 shillings
- An unnamed younger son
- An unnamed younger daughter
- Tiny Tim
Portrayals of Bob Cratchit
The role of Bob Cratchit has been performed (live action, voiced or animation) by
Gene Lockhart,
Mervyn Johns,
David Collings,
Wayne Allwine,
David Warner,
Steve Whitmire, and
Richard E. Grant, among others.
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