Ebenita will be visited by three ghosts; they will show her where she has gone wrong in life, and the necessary changes she must effect in order to avoid Maude's eternal suffering.
George, along with two Army buddies, aspired to open a general store, despite white opposition, and a lack of opportunities for African-Americans.
Trouble ensued when both of George's partners backed out of the arrangement; one moved up north for better job opportunities and more of them, while the other started his own laundromat.
Determined to keep the building where he planned to open his store, George used the family savings and a few loans to pay the rent in advance.
15 years later, shortly after their mother's death, Ebenita sought employment in Providence while Perry, following in their father's footsteps, married his high-school girlfriend and joined the Army.
She finds that her head clerk, Bob Cratchit, and his family are happy in spite of their poverty; they are grateful to Ebenita, despite her miserliness.
The family can't afford the treatment he needs to survive, which is why Bob asked Ebenita about medical health plans.
When Ebenita wonders why they haven't gone to public agencies for help, the Ghost reveals that they have many times, only to be rejected because of Bob's salary from her, which is too high to qualify for welfare, and yet too low to cover the necessary surgery for Tim.
The Ghost shows Ebenita that kindness can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time: the family she evicted is being put up in the gymnasium at their children's school for the Christmas vacation.
Finally, the Ghost takes Ebenita to Luke's church; she finds him giving a sermon about the difference between heaven and hell, using a variation on the allegory of the long spoons.
She gifts him, and her entire savings-and-loan staff, with excellent medical health plans, and presents Tim with a puppy and the other children with mechanical toys that Ebenita previously used as coin banks.
According to Yelyzaveta Tretiakova of Screen Rant, Ms. Scrooge was "by far" the worst adaptation of A Christmas Carol when taking audience rankings from IMDB.
[2] Although the movie as a whole may have received negative feedback, Ryan Heffernan from Collider praised Cicely Tyson's portrayal of Scrooge as "touching and delicate".