What does the chain represent in this excerpt from chapter 1 of a Christmas carol by Charles Dickens? “You are fettered,” said scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?” “I we are the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it is its patterns strange to you?”
Scrooge trembled more and more