A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol: Frame Story 1 key example

Stave 1
Explanation and Analysis:

In A Christmas Carol, Dickens employs a frame story to introduce a part of the narrative at the beginning and finish it at the end. The frame story begins in Scrooge's counting house on Christmas Eve. Within that frame, Scrooge sees Marley's ghost and three spirits that take him on a journey to the past, present, and future.