This actually takes on a whole extra symbolic meaning because this isn’t just a greedy man giving up his gold, this is an adventurer giving up his memories of those adventures:
Scrooge considered each coin a reminder of his greatest achievements, so special and important that he had them stored in a glorified swimming pool and swam in them! And yet he happily spent three quarters of them for Della and probably would have given them all up if his staff hadn’t stopped him.
Effectively, this is Scrooge admitting that he’d give up not only all the money, but all the adventures he went on to make it too, if it would just get his family back and erase the greatest mistake he’d ever made.
Reblogging this because this addition is literally so important.
