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How Does Miss Havisham Influence Joe Gargery

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Children are influenced by adults close to them because they have learned from them and they usually follow what they do so they can grow up to be successful. In the novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the characters Joe Gargery and Miss Havisham influence Pip greatly. Joe influences Pip because Joe was always hardworking and now Pip tries to be hardworking like him. Pip also now feels like he should have never left the marshes. On the other hand, Miss Havisham teaches Pip to not love and to not be hopeful. Ultimately, Joe has a greater influence on Pip. Joe has a kind and forgiving nature throughout the novel. Joe describes his childhood to Pip, he reveals that he and his mom were always running away from Joe’s father because he …show more content…

First, Miss Havisham tells Estella something that will confuse and depress Pip “‘Let me see you play cards with this boy.’ ‘With this boy? Why, he is a common labouring-boy!’ I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer—only it seemed so unlikely— ‘Well? You can break his heart.’” (46). Miss Havisham tells Estella to break Pip’s heart so that Miss Havisham can benefit and be amused. Miss Havisham is vengeful here because she states that it is okay for Estella to break his heart, which is just so that Estella will play cards with him for Miss Havisham’s benefit. Next, Miss Havisham is vengeful when she tells Estella to break everyone’s heart. “‘Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!’”(74). Miss Havisham tells Estella to “break their hearts”. Miss Havisham is extremely vengeful here because she uses Estella as a pawn to go out into the world to make men jealous of her just so that she can break their hearts. Finally, Miss Havisham is vengeful to Pip when she tells him that she has no reason to be kind. “‘But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on?’ said I. ‘Yes,’ she returned, again nodding, steadily, ‘I let you go on.’ ‘Was that kind?’ ‘Who am I,’ cried Miss Havisham, striking her stick upon the floor and flashing into wrath so suddenly that Estella glanced up at her in surprise, ‘who am I, for God’s sake, that I should be

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