How could the dinner at Fred's place shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Present be described?

Scrooge arrives with the ghost at a "bright, dry, gleaming" room where his nephew Fred and friends—we are told about twenty—are enjoying Christmas. As the scene opens, the guests have just finished dinner and have gathered around the fire, with dessert still on the table. They are talking about Scrooge, and Fred declares that Scrooge's money doesn't make him happy. Everything about the scene is filled with happiness and laughter. The guests laugh "heartily" at...

Scrooge arrives with the ghost at a "bright, dry, gleaming" room where his nephew Fred and friends—we are told about twenty—are enjoying Christmas. As the scene opens, the guests have just finished dinner and have gathered around the fire, with dessert still on the table. They are talking about Scrooge, and Fred declares that Scrooge's money doesn't make him happy. Everything about the scene is filled with happiness and laughter. The guests laugh "heartily" at Scrooge for saying "humbug" when Fred earlier had invited him to this Christmas dinner, but they laugh without malice. The young people play games, such as blind man's buff, and a game called "Yes and No," which we might called "Twenty Questions," in which the guests have to guess the name of an animal living in London and the answer is Scrooge. This causes even more laughter.

One of the most moving moments of the evening for Scrooge comes when the young people sing songs, while his niece accompanies them on the harp. One of the tunes is a simple little ditty Scrooge remembers from his youth. At this point—which occurs before all the games, such as blind man's buff—Scrooge "softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands..."

The scene is all Dickens, the essence of what we now call the bright side of the "Dickensian": domestic merriment and joy amid family, friends, good food, games, songs and good times around a warm fire with lots and lots of laughter. For Dickens, this was the good life, and beyond that, he saw it as redemptive, meaning that such family warmth and kindness could and would soften hard hearts like Scrooge's and lead people to treat each other with greater compassion and humanity.