The Grinch is Scrooge in Disguise

This Christmas season, we’ve watched the cartoon, the live-action and the animated film of this Dr. Seuss story. {We probably won’t see the latest ‘horror’ version.) It was the flashback to his ’empty’ childhood Christmas memory that clued me into the echo that Scrooge went through in “A Christmas Carol”. How could I not have seen that before?

We watched the 2000 and 2019 films back-to-back last night.

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)

For some reason, the 2018 animated film wasn’t included in this YouTube video, above.

The other echo of the past is the Wicked Witch of the West from “The Wizard of Oz”. The fact of the Grinch being green cannot be accidental. He suffers from the same ostracism that Elphaba does.in “Wicked”. Only Kermit the Frog gets away with it.

(Ost)racism is hinted here as elsewhere. Only Cindy-Lou wanted nobody to be alone at Christmas.

Bless.