Is that what the old story is all about? Giving up the one most precious thing he's been keeping all his life?
Not really, no.
In the original, Scrooge loves a girl but he's always putting off marrying her until business is a little better, and she gets tired of it, realizes he loves business more than he loves her, and leaves him on Christmas Day. His spirits show him himself excelling at business while failing at interpersonal relationships, how most people revile him, but Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim pray for him even though he is horrible to them, and himself and Tiny Tim dead in the near future, which convinces him that he should change his life. He is mainly saved by Tiny Tim's selflessness.
So, there's a lot of divergence. Dickens, for example, has no sharks.
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Not really, no.
In the original, Scrooge loves a girl but he's always putting off marrying her until business is a little better, and she gets tired of it, realizes he loves business more than he loves her, and leaves him on Christmas Day. His spirits show him himself excelling at business while failing at interpersonal relationships, how most people revile him, but Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim pray for him even though he is horrible to them, and himself and Tiny Tim dead in the near future, which convinces him that he should change his life. He is mainly saved by Tiny Tim's selflessness.
So, there's a lot of divergence. Dickens, for example, has no sharks.
The 1992 Muppet version is a good one to watch, as is the 1984 one with Turlough and George C Scott in the title role.