Answer:
Before his character is reformed, Scrooge is portrayed as a ruthless and miserly man who values money over friendship. As such, we see evidence of his status as a strange and social outcast in the first pentagram (or chapter) of history. In the opening paragraphs, for example, Dickens writes that Scrooge is as "lonely as an oyster" and has very little to do with the rest of society:
My beloved Scrooge, how are you ... No beggar begged him to give him a trifle, no child asked him what he was, no man or once in All her life, a woman asked the way to this or that place, to Scrooge ".
Dickens also claims that Scrooge spent all of his days at his counting house. He never visits other people and even rejects his nephew's request to spend Christmas day together.
Later, when he was visited by the Ghost of the Christmas present, some of the images shown to him demonstrate his status as a stranger. In Fred's house, for example, the Yes and No game shows how little other people value him. They compare Scrooge to a "nasty animal" and "wild" because they cannot relate to him as a human companion. Similarly, in Old Joe's Shop, in Staff Four, it is morally easy for women to steal Scrooge's belongings and sell them. Once again, these women cannot relate to Scrooge because their values and character are very different from his. His physical emphasis and importance on capital alienated him and made him stand out:
"Why wasn't it natural in his life? If it had been, he would have had someone to watch over him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping for the last time, alone."
Only when Scrooge is redeemed, on the fifth staff, does he lose his status as a stranger. By reconnecting with people like Fred and Tiny Tim, he becomes a respected and beloved member of society.