The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens
A Fancy for Christmas-Time
A lonely, embittered man is visited by a spectral figure who offers to erase his painful memories and free him from sorrow; at first relieved, he soon discovers that losing the burden of grief also strips him of compassion and renders him indifferent to the needs and feelings of others. His changed behavior harms friends and upends a small circle of relationships gathered around a seasonal celebration, and through the resulting consequences he comes to understand that suffering and memory are essential to empathy and human connection, prompting him to reject the bargain and embrace the mixed nature of joy and pain.
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- 1848
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