The Cratchit family has been described as "impoverished, hardworking, and warmhearted". The next day Scrooge states that he will increase Cratchit's salary immediately and promises to help his struggling family. While Cratchit's family curses Scrooge for his stinginess, however, Cratchit says he feels sorry for his employer, and insists that they toast his health.Īfter Scrooge decides to change his ways on Christmas Day, he anonymously sends a Christmas turkey to Cratchit for his family's dinner. Cratchit's son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and sick according to the Ghost of Christmas Present, Tim will die because the family is too poor to give him the treatment he needs. When Cratchit timidly asks Scrooge for Christmas Day off work so he can be with his family, Scrooge at first threatens to dock his pay, but reluctantly agrees on the condition that Cratchit comes to work early the day after Christmas.Ĭratchit and his family live in poverty because Scrooge is too miserly to pay him a decent wage. The abused, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge (and possibly Jacob Marley, when he was alive), Cratchit has come to symbolize the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era.
Cratchit (named Emily in some adaptations)Īn unnamed son (named Matthew in some adaptations)Īn unnamed daughter (named Lucy or Gillian in some adaptions)īob Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim as depicted in the 1870s by Fred Barnard
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