How is Scrooge's character shaped by conflict?

The conflict that shapes Scrooge's character is internal;
what this means is that Scrooge is actually fighting himself. Scrooge has been suffering
psychologically for years from the abuse of neglect he received as a child when he was
left alone during Christmas at the boarding school. This moment in his life causes
Scrooge to slowly hate Christmas and mankind, and as a result he becomes London's worst
misanthrope.

However, another conflict manifests itself on
that Christmas eve when the do-gooders stop by to ask Scrooge for a donation for
charity, but before they do, they mention Marley's name. The mention of Marley's name
triggers Scrooge's memory of friendship, love and benevolence, which Scrooge has been
suppressing for years, but now he has to confront them, and confront them he
does.

The conflict intensifies when Marley's spirit arrives
at his own home to warn Scrooge of his demise if he does not heed his warning and accept
the three ghosts. Scrooge's conflict here is in accepting this revelation, for at first
he doesn't believe that Marley is real, for he thinks that Marley is "an undigested bit
of beef; a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. In
other words, Scrooge is trying to convince himself that he is suffering from
indigestion. Obviously Scrooge is fighting the truth of the matter, and the truth is
that Scrooge has been fighting himself to not love mankind, Christmas or
himself.

But in this conflict he begins to change, for he
accepts Marley's warning, and waits, in anticipation, for the three spirits that he must
face in order to be saved.

Scrooge's encounter with the
Ghost of Christmas Past reveals Scrooge's Christmas past and it isn't pleasant. Although
Scrooge is somewhat resistant to seeing this past, he examines it, and in accepting what
happened to him back then, he begins to give in to the good in his soul, for when he
sees himself as a very young boy all alone at this boarding school, he sheds a tear;
this tear symbolizes the return of warmth and sympathy in Scrooge's cold heart; the ice
around his heart is melting, and Scrooge is beginning to
resurrect.

But the conflict doesn't end here, for when he
meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, he has to face the realities of the life that he
has created for the Cratchit, for Bob Cratchit is his employee, and the wages that
Scrooge has been paying Cratchit are very pitiful, so pitiful that he cannot afford
proper medical attention for his son, Tiny Tim. Seeing this causes Scrooge to become
even more compassionate, for in Tiny tim, Scrooge must have seen himself. This conflict
that Scrooge faces in witnessing the Cratchits has a tremendous effect on his
character.

The last conflict that Scrooge faces is his own
death, which the Ghost of Christmas Future reveals to SCrooge; it is this conflict that
ultimately changes Scrooge's character, for when he sees that no one is affected by his
death, that no one shows any compassion for him, and when he stands before his very own
grave, he falls to his knees and begs for mercy and forgiveness for his misanthropic
ways.

Scrooge's metamorphosis is a direct result of the
enormous internal conflict that he has been confronting for years, but on this fateful
Christmas eve he succumbs to that conflict; the good in Scrooge final over comes the
evil in him.