How Does Joe Gargery Influence Pip's Life

After gaining his wealth, Pip becomes snobby and lets everything go to his head. Now, after losing his wealth, we, as readers see a new change in Pip's personality. As for himself, Pip appears to feel ashamed of himself and his new class. In ​Great Expectations​, explaining Pip's feelings, Pip thinks, "Next day, I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go down to Joe; but I was capable of almost any meanness towards Joe or his name." (Dickens, 391) Pips thoughts here, represent how he starts to realize how he has changed since moving to London. In his childhood, Pip was practically best friends with Joe, then becoming a gentleman, he has this sense that he is above Joe and essentially wanted nothing to do with

Throughout Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, the character, personality, and social beliefs of Pip undergo complete transformations as he interacts with an ever-changing pool of characters presented in the book. Pip’s moral values remain more or less constant at the beginning and the end; however, it is evident that in the time between, the years of his maturation and coming of adulthood, he is fledgling to find his place in society. Although Pip is influenced by many characters throughout the novel, his two most influential role models are: Estella, the object of Miss Havisham’s revenge against men, and Magwitch, the benevolent convict. Exposing himself to such diverse characters Pip has to learn to discern right from wrong and chose

As Pip a poor young orphaned boy grows up, he needed someone to care, love, and listen to him, and Joe Gargery was that person for Pip. In the novel, The Great Expectation, Joe Gargery, Pip’s brother-in-law who whole heartedly takes Pip in and raised him as his own, became a father to Pip. As the novel progresses, Joe eventually became more than a father; he was Pip’s confidant, his conscience, and Dickens uses Joe to bring a moral side to the novel.

In the first volume of the novel Great Expectations a great many characters influenced Pip. The characters who affect him most significantly thus far are Mrs. Joe Gargery, Joe Gargery, and Estella.

Young Pip’s only relief from his harsh upbringing comes from Joe Gargery, his brother and friend. Before Pip even speaks to Joe, he describes his brother-in-law as “a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easygoing, foolish, dear fellow” (11). Joe is aware of Pip’s torment and subtly consoles him. For example, as Mr. Wopsle and company verbally

Pip displays selfishness by wanting to advance in society and no longer become a blacksmith like Joe. He accepts to leave to London in order to become a gentleman, but selfishly wants to lose all connection with the common world and when Joe visits, in Chapter XXVII, Pip states that “if I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money” (Dickens 197). Pip’s selfishness and ambition are what causes him to grow distant from Joe, whom he once saw as his closest friend. Exploitation is shown by how Pip is sent to see Miss Havisham when he is young in hope that she will pay Mrs. Joe Gargery back with money. He is being exploited in order for his sister to gain social status.

Just as we sometimes turn away from God, Pip turns away from Joe. When Pip meets Estella and the "glittering alternative to life at the forge that she and Satis House represent, he can't ever again enjoy the idea of working with Joe at the forge."4 When he acquires his fortune, Pip totally pushes Joe out of his life. Because Great Expectations is written in first person (and Pip is a very honest storyteller), we can observe that "while Pip the narrator recognizes Joe's goodness..."5 and great love for him, "...Pip the character goes on

Charles Dickens uses his own opinions to develop the larger-than-life characters in Great Expectations. The novel is written from the point of view of the protagonist, Pip. Pip guides the reader through his life, describing the different stages from childhood to manhood. Many judgments are made regarding the other characters, and Pip's views of them are constantly changing according to his place in the social hierarchy. For instance, Pip feels total admiration that, later, turns to total shame for the man who raised him, Joe Gargery. The primary theme in this novel questions whether being in a higher social and economic class helps a person to achieve true happiness. This idea is shown through Pip's innocence at the forge, visits

The entire story is told through the eyes of an adult Pip, even though Pip is a small child during parts of it. In his early years, Pip was strongly influenced by his guardians, Joe Gargery and his wife, Mrs. Joe. Joe instills a sense of honesty, industry, and friendliness in Pip, while Mrs. Joe does a great deal to contribute to his desires and ambitions through her constant emphasis on pomp and property. Pip is generally good-natured and thoughtful, and very imaginative. His false values, which are bolstered by his love of Estella, decrease the amount of respect that he has for Joe. His alienation from Joe and Joe's values builds through the second part of the novel, as Pip becomes selfish, greedy, and foolish. During the period when his expectations are intact, his only morally positive act was to secretly help Herbert Pocket into a good position. Upon discovering that Magwitch is his benefactor, a new phase begins in Pip's moral evolution. At first, Pip no longer feels the same human compassion for Magwitch that he did the first time he saw him out on the marshes. Gradually, Pip changes his perception of Magwitch, unlearning what he has learned. Pip becomes concerned with the man, and not the expectations that he could provide. When Jaggers presents the thought that there may be a way for Pip to get his hands on Magwitch's property, the idea sounds hollow and utterly empty to Pip. Pip learns about Estella's parentage through

In the first 100 pages of Great Expectations, the protagonist Pip was introduced. Pip is portrayed as an eager, young, hopeful student with an extremely guilty conscious. He is being raised by his sister and her husband, the blacksmith.

I’ve already read the book, “Great Expectations”, so I will try my best to judge Pip, based only on chapters 1-3. Almost from the moment I was introduced to Pip, I noticed his fragility. After narrating his background, Pip talks about one occurrence at the graveyard when he was visiting his parents, and begins to cry as his surroundings frightened him(The wind, the marsh, the river, and the sea). His delicacy is obviously a consequence of the death of his parents and five brothers when he was at a young age, but is mainly due to the constant beatings and severity of his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who raised him since his parents’ death. I also discovered his gullibility when he actually believed that the man he meets in the graveyard will

Dickens introduced Pip as a young boy in the beginning of the book to establish empathy with audience. While in the graveyard , Pip meets a strange man, it states “ A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg...after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside- down and emptied my pockets…”.(chap1, pg4) Pip meets a stranger in the graveyard after going to see his parents and Pip fears the convict but little did he know that the convict, Magwitch would change his life forever. Dickens continues to introduce Pip and his relationship with his sister Mrs. Joe and her husband Joe. According to Joe, “Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip...she’s got Tickler with her…

One character that impacted Pip was Joe because he had a positive influence on Pip. Joe influences Pip from his sense of childish attitude towards Mrs Joe Gargery, which helped Pip to not be as afraid of her as he knows that Joe will always be on his side and feel the same way. “She’s been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip. She’s a coming!

Great Expectations’ main character, Phillip Pirrip- generally known as Pip- had a rough upbringing as a child. His sister, Mrs. Joe had “brought him up by hand”, after their parents and five brothers had all been laid to rest many years ago. Another character, Herbert Pocket experienced a bizarre childhood, though in a different manner. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations develops through the novel following Pip, a young “common boy” who grew up in the countryside. As he matured so did his love for a girl of higher class, Estella. However, being a common boy, Pip was not good enough for his Estella, thus once he was given an opportunity to become a gentleman in London he seized it without much hesitation. Charles Dickens’ had his own

effect on Pip through his love. Pip loves Joe for what he is and in