The Cratchits are proud and happy even though they are barely surviving poverty. Belinda Cratchit, second born daughter of Bob and Emily Tiny Tim Cratchit, youngest Cratchit child. Their good-hearted cheerfulness embodies the Christmas Spirit, and we admire how they cope with poverty and ill-health. The family is described with a sense of positive energy: they are all taking part in the preparations for Christmas, and 'two smaller Cratchits' come 'tearing in, screaming' (p. 47) about how wonderful their goose smells as it cooks. The Cratchit family allows us an insight into the lives of the Victorian working poor. Martha Cratchit, Bob and Emily's oldest daughter and is a millner's apprentice. Cratchit had to work everyday in the year, except Christmas which was the one day the Cratchit family would have a proper meal with a goose and lots more treats … They see Mrs. Cratchit, in an old dress but making it merry with ribbons, and the many Cratchit children, all helping to ready the house for Christmas dinner. The Cratchit Family 'There was never such a goose' Having such a goose of 'universal admiration' is a very rare event in the Cratchit family- such food is considered a luxury worth sharing to the whole family for Christmas- this is juxtaposed to Scrooge's 'melancholy', solitary dinner. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint such a thing. Cratchit family, fictional characters, an impoverished hardworking and warmhearted family in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. The Cratchit Family. The ghost’s special power to fit into any room symbolizes how Christmas can be found in any situation—rich or poor, big room or small. Despite their poverty and ill-health (Tiny Tim) they embody the Christmas spirit with their optimistic outlook and strong sense of family. He treats Bob Cratchit inadequately, with no … Then all the Cratchit family drew around the hearth. Peter Cratchit, Bob and Emily's oldest son who will one day inherit his father's wealth. Idealised image of Victorian family to manipulate Victorian reader to feel attached. Another foreshadowed element is the "Doom" written across the Ignorant boy's brow. It is an appealing and recongnised image. Apart from Martha, they all live in th same small house, they are a very poor family. Emily Cratchit, Bob's wife. The Cratchit family – The Cratchits give us an insight into what life was like for poor in Victorian. Bob Cratchit, Apprentice to Ebeneezer Scrooge. He symbolizes one of the important themes embodied in the story of Dickens, which is the image of the lives of the poor, in particular, the inhabitants of the cities suffering from cold and hunger. Bob Cratchit is the minor character of the carol. Bob Cratchit - Scrooge's clerk, a kind, mild, and very poor man with a large family. Character Analysis. The family comprises Bob Cratchit, his wife, and their six children: Martha, Belinda, Peter, two smaller Cratchits (an unnamed girl and boy), and the lame but ever-cheerful Tiny Tim. The set piece of the stave is the Cratchit family dinner. Bob Cratchit worked long hours to put food on the table for his family as well as his crippled and sickly son, while getting paid an appalling wage. Have dignity and is grateful Scrooge would not let Bob Cratchit have more than one lump of coal, even though he was freezing. The cratchits show that companionship is worth more than wealth Loving and Cheerful; Dickens reminds the reader the poor are people just the same as the rich; THEME : FAMILY : Scrooge is rich and lonely, the Cratchits are poor in money but rich in law. Love trumps poverty in Dickens's sentimental portrait of the Cratchits, but he adds a dark note at the end when he reveals Tiny Tim will die unless the future is changed.