The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to a variety of Christmas celebrations, including a party aboard a ship and Fred's party, which Scrooge had been invited to, but declined to attend. While the miners' hut is not given a great deal of attention, one can picture it as a desolate and isolated place. Yet, even in such a lonesome outpost, the miners are celebrating Christmas.
This is in direct contrast to Scrooge. Even though Scrooge is in the midst of a town of celebrating Christmas, and even though he has a party invitation from his nephew, Scrooge is not celebrating in anywhere near the scope of that of the miners; in fact, he is not celebrating at all. Contrasting him to the remote miners only helps to further drive home this point.
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