A Christmas Carol query

[marv]

Hi, this is my first post. Here's my query: In Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", Tiny Tim exclaims, "God bless us, every one!" Most interpretations I've seen have the character saying "everyone" as if he's saying, "God bless us, everyone who's within hearing of me saying this". I believer the correct interpretation is akin to him saying "God bless every ONE of us!" Is this not what Dickens had in mind?

[DWolfman]

Welcome to the forums!

And, in response to your post: I agree wholeheartedly.

In fact, Dickens obviously felt so strongly about that statement
that he made it the last line of "A Christmas Carol" -

He (Scrooge) had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon
the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was
always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas
well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that
be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim
observed, God bless Us, Every One!


-DW-