Neither the original book nor the film adaptation give any serious consideration to what Christmas is really all about, but they do clearly recognise what it isn’t about. The story got the big-budget film treatment in 2000, with Ron Howard directing and Jim Carrey as the Grinch.
Returning the presents, he goes into the village and joins the festivities. His miserable heart – ‘two sizes too small’ – is replaced by a larger one. The next morning the Grinch, anticipating cries of despair, hears celebration and realises that Christmas is about more than presents. Embittered by the villagers’ celebrations, on Christmas Eve he sneaks into the houses and steals all their presents, thinking that this will make them miserable. The original story is of the Grinch, a solitary, grumpy and spiteful creature who lives outside the town of Whoville. It’s become astonishingly famous and even those people who have never read the book are aware of the term ‘Grinch’ for a miserable, sneering person who hates fun and festivity.
Sixty years ago Dr Seuss wrote a little children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, as a protest on the commercialism that he thought was destroying Christmas.
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