Essay Archive - Great Expectations: Pip
Great Expectations: Pip
The following people effect Pip and are effected by him. Each has
distinct personal characteristics and qualities.
Mrs. Joe, Pip's sister, is about twenty when Pip is born. She is
Pip's only known relative that is alive and has brought him up by hand. She
is portrayed as a strict mean person to Pip and Joe Gargery throughout her
presence in the novel, by using the "tickler," a cane for beating him when
bad.
Joe Gargery, Pip's brother-in-law and foster father, is the most
good-hearted of all Dickens' characters in this book. He submits to Mrs.
Joe's rampages b....
|