What does the quote from a christmas carol;” i wear the chains i forged in life.” mean?
Link by link, and yard by yard. Like the other posters have said, it means that Marley is being punished for his crimes in life. He didn’t care about humanity or compassion, only about business and making more and more money with shrewd and predatory business practices. His chains represent his guilt, and he warns Scrooge that Scrooge’s own chain was the same length and weight as Marley’s seven Christmas Eves ago. He has labored on it since.
