Taylen Marler
To say that characterization and maturity is key to the novel Great Expectations is an understatement. The novel tells of a society where social class is everything. It tells of an orphan living with his sister and her husband, and the journey of changing his social class and finding his true identity.
Joe Gargery appears in the novel Great Expectations as a blacksmith married to Pip’s sister, Mrs. Joe. We as readers, get our first characterization of Joe when Pip describes him as “a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear …show more content…
Wemmick, a clerk for Mr. Jaggers, takes the role of teaching Pip about portable property for financial support, but seems to have influenced Pip in a blindsided way about true identity. Dickens includes Wemmick in his story to add to the complexity of these different characters that are essentially involved in Pip’s life. The novel takes a central role in exemplifying immaturity and growing up. Encountering many of these different people allowed for Pip to analyze his own self in the end. Wemmick is demonstrated as a split character, one that is seen as having little respect for clients in the office (to ultimately appease his boss Mr. Jagger’s) and the total opposite in his so called “castle” that holds a small part of joy in his life, his wife. The thing that dickens does so fluidly is that he takes this character (Pip) into this world of personality, extreme social class, and characters of different levels of maturity. Immaturity is found in Wemmick when the reader sees Pip’s confusion and says“… there were twin Wemmicks and this was the wrong one” (ch. 48). The inability to establish who Wemmick is as a character, whether or not it is one with joy or filled with disrespect for clientele, reflects a problem (the same as Pip) in finding true
To say that characterization and maturity is key to the novel Great Expectations is an understatement. The novel tells of a society where social class is everything. It tells of an orphan living with his sister and her husband, and the journey of changing his social class and finding his true identity.
Joe Gargery appears in the novel Great Expectations as a blacksmith married to Pip’s sister, Mrs. Joe. We as readers, get our first characterization of Joe when Pip describes him as “a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear …show more content…
Wemmick, a clerk for Mr. Jaggers, takes the role of teaching Pip about portable property for financial support, but seems to have influenced Pip in a blindsided way about true identity. Dickens includes Wemmick in his story to add to the complexity of these different characters that are essentially involved in Pip’s life. The novel takes a central role in exemplifying immaturity and growing up. Encountering many of these different people allowed for Pip to analyze his own self in the end. Wemmick is demonstrated as a split character, one that is seen as having little respect for clients in the office (to ultimately appease his boss Mr. Jagger’s) and the total opposite in his so called “castle” that holds a small part of joy in his life, his wife. The thing that dickens does so fluidly is that he takes this character (Pip) into this world of personality, extreme social class, and characters of different levels of maturity. Immaturity is found in Wemmick when the reader sees Pip’s confusion and says“… there were twin Wemmicks and this was the wrong one” (ch. 48). The inability to establish who Wemmick is as a character, whether or not it is one with joy or filled with disrespect for clientele, reflects a problem (the same as Pip) in finding true