The Grinch arrives at the same epiphany as countless wintertime entertainments past, but the trouble is that The Grinch does the exact same.
The Grinch wants the Grinch to be George Bailey, the redeemed turned redeemer.
For all its certainty about the meaning of Christmas, a phrase that even tastes hackneyed in your mouth when spoken aloud, The Grinch doesn’t quite understand the meaning of the Grinch.
Like Scrooge before him, the Grinch had assumed an almost mythical aura as an embodiment of forces greater than himself.