Great Expectations Death Analysis

Death is a very big topic in Great Expectations considering almost all of Pip 's relatives have died in his life. However, I am only going to be focusing on one death in this paper and that is Mrs. Joe Gargary. Mrs. Gargary or better known as Mrs. Joe is the wife of Joe, and the much older sister of Pip. She goes by Mrs. Joe in this book because she in a way takes on the manly role causing a gender reversal, so by going by that symbolizes her taking on the manlier role. She also raised Pip as his sister but took on the mother role by hand. She was mean, unapproachable, hard, resentful, short tempered, and prickly. Also, she is all about corporal punishment, keeping a very clean household, and even has a special tool to menace people with …show more content…
Joe 's death, in particular, had great effects on a lot of the characters, especially Pip and Joe. Pip has been affected by a lot of death in his life but none of which he has been a grown up for. Mrs. Joe 's death was the first. When Pip hears the news of the tragedy he rushes back from London to attend the funeral and be with Mr. Joe. The death marks and important point in the Maturation of Pip, he claims that we will correct his behavior towards his lower class loved-ones. In addition to returning home, he finds himself thinking about his sister a lot, picturing her in the street, in his quarters, and the memories haunting his mind. Those memories do have a way of easing the less pleasant ones. However he does not feel much sympathy, he is angrier at the fact that they could never find her assailant. As for Joe, Mrs. Joe died in his arms and that left him completely distraught. The funeral was being set up by Trabb and company, they made it all fancy and nice. Joe doesn 't want anything to do with the fancy funeral arrangements, he is just way too sad for that. However, Joe does kind of reclaim his life from his earlier insecurity after her death. He is still very sad and the only person it seems like Joe wants to talk to or be around is Pip. Joe gets very pleased when Pip tells him that he wants to stay over in his old childhood room. As for Biddy, she will now earn her money by