How does Scrooge change as the different ghosts visit him?

As we meet him in the beginning of the novel, Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly banker who begrudges everyone any happiness, comfort or wealth. His inability to see outside himself and understand the circumstances of others is nonexistent. When the reader first meets him, it would appear that nothing would scare him and that he had not a care in the world about anyone else.

As the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future visit him however, Scrooge experiences feelings he had not before felt. Initially he is terrified by the ghosts that visit him. This is a change in itself, he goes from being the one who terrorizes to being full of fear that is placed upon him by the ghosts who visit him. From fear, Scrooge begins to see outside himself and to become less egocentric. This is a huge change for Scrooge who on Christmas Eve even begrudged his clerk some warmth from extra coal. As Scrooge is visited by each ghost, he begins to see himself as if looking in a mirror. He sees who he was from the ghost of Christmas past and what he will become from the ghost of Christmas future if he does not change. The ghosts of Christmas present allows him to see what his life and Christmas can be by visiting his poor clerk's happy home. Through these visits, Scrooge changes his hardened heart and miserly ways. In the end he is joyous and generous.