Why is ebenezer scrooge so outraged by marriage/love?
Probably because Scrooge never knew what love or marriage truly meant. He chose money over marriage when he was younger, and thought it was a wise choice. He didn’t know why his nephew married – and especially why he married for love because in society at that time, marriages were most often arranged for financial reasons. Brides had to have a healthy dowry to attract a husband. Scrooge’s nephew’s wife had no dowry and to Scrooge, that meant he was giving up money, which had been the most important thing in Scrooge’s life. What Scrooge saw was the loving relationship between his nephew and wife – a relationship that was generous enough to send kindly thoughts to a miserly old lman like himself.
