Great insights! I just read the "Chimes" and was struck by the comparisons to "It's a Wonderful Life" although I never made the connection that it was an adaptation.
One note about suicide as a topic at Christmastime: I think we forget that while Christmas is about new beginnings, the story itself is also directly tied up with Herod's massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt.
Great insights! I just read the "Chimes" and was struck by the comparisons to "It's a Wonderful Life" although I never made the connection that it was an adaptation.
One note about suicide as a topic at Christmastime: I think we forget that while Christmas is about new beginnings, the story itself is also directly tied up with Herod's massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt.