Evidence from the text that supports the following points relating to jacob marley, marleys ghost: the effect the chains have on scrooge and the reader

The chains represent guilt. The reader or audience can connect the chains to greed and guilt. The narrator says:

Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives.

The reader can question him or herself how they might be guilty, to some extent, of what Marley has done.