As Scrooge leaves his house on Christmas morning, he notices the doorknocker again. Why do you think the author draws attention to this seemingly unimportant object?
By the way, it is from the book "A Christmas Carol."
The doorknocker is an important object, though. The doorknocker showed Scrooge Jacob Marley's face, in which led him through the events of the "night before Christmas" Without have seeing Jacob Marley's face he wouldn't have had any motivation.
