Scrooge in Europe

[jeanmarcbano]

About the fact of knowing if Scrooge could ONLY be an american character, i don't agree, for many reasons; first, that wasn't an obligation in the past for an European to go to America for making fortune; in France, for example, there was a very rich society on the Riviera at the beginning of the twentieth century, and a lot people succeeded in business here for about three decades after World War 2 when economy was very good; secondly, the background of the life of Scrooge was less important in the old italian stories than it has been in the american stories (which have a more biographical approach of Scrooge in general); the ducks in these european stories were living in the present with less elements which refered to a past where Scrooge should have left European countries for making fortune in America (i didn't know until recently he was Scottish), and i think that is linked to the fact that these italian stories used to have a more ludicrous approach of the ducks stories than the american ones which were more in the style of 'adventures-at-the-end-of-the-world-for-finding-some-lost-treasures-; so i have always been thinking in these european stories Scrooge could have been any rich men who were around in Europe in the 20th century.
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