Joe Gargery, Pip’s brother in law in Great Expectations, is one of the few characters in the book who is a genuinely kind-hearted and caring person. Joe’s character in expressed by the way he treats Pip and how Pip describes Joe. On page 6 of Great Expectations, Pip is describing what his sister and Joe are like. Pip obviously thinks more highly of Joe than of his sister because he says that his sister is a short tempered person and Joe is a caring person. The fact that Pip loves Joe, shows that Joe has earned Pips trust and love by continually looking out for him because Joe truly cares for Pip. On the same page, Mrs. Joe is angrily looking for Pip and Joe tells Pip to hide behind the door and cover himself with a towel. Joe tries to protect Pip because he loves Pip and does not want to see him get hurt. If Joe was not a kind person, he would not even bother trying to help Pip. On page 29, Joe tells Pip that he cares for him so much that when Joe married Pip’s sister, he told her he would also take care of Pip. Joe did not have to accept Pip into his house, but Joe is not the kind of person who would leave a child without a home. Joe allowed Pip into his life because he wanted to, not because he had to. Only a person with a kind and caring heart would lovingly watch over child that was …show more content…
Joe even when he is constantly being treated unfairly by Mrs. Joe. Joe loves her so much that he looks past her bad qualities and focuses on her good ones. Because Joe is a loving person, he chooses to see the best in his wife and Pip and still wants the best for them. This is evident when even after Pip leaves to continue his studies and disregards his family, Joe hears that Pip is sick and leaves to help him get better. Joe even paid all of Pip’s debt and never asked anything in return. Joe could have been spiteful and left Pip in his misery, but Joe cares so much for Pip that he would not have been able to leave Pip like that (ch.
...ent and child are torn forcibly apart though conflict. There are many similarities between Mister Pip and Saturday Climbing, and the parent-child relationships in them. However, there are also differences, with the main one being how the story ends. In Mister Pip, the conflict between Matilda and her mother results in terrible consequences, particularly the death of Delores and Mr. Watts. In contrast to this, at the end of Saturday Climbing, Barry eventually lets go of Moira, although somewhat hesitantly, as he realises that she needs her freedom to grow and mature unconstrained. He can still stand behind her as protection from falls, but he can no longer stand in front of Moira as her shield. Both of the parents think that they are doing the right thing in trying to protect their child.
Joe is considered an average man with big dreams before arriving at the town. After taking control as mayor his whole demeanor changed. Using a banker as inspiration Joe becomes someone solely focused on image and being above the other people in the town. The life he claims as is own is nothing but a façade with Janie as an ornament. Joes view on what Janies role was going to be was clear from the beginning he believed that a “pretty baby-doll lak you is made to sit on de front porch” making it clear that Janie is a valuable thing not a person (Hurston 29). Joe’s continues the show he is giving the town until Janie tires of them and embarrasses him on the stage he has built in front of his entire audience. The destruction of the façade that has been created over the years causes him to self-destruct, literally. His image is everything to him and once it is ruined he has nothing to live for anymore. The people he believed were below him now laugh at and no longer take him seriously. His life solely depended on keeping him self above the other people in his community without that ability he no longer had anything to live for. As shown in Larsen’s novel living with this idea of classism sometimes goes hand in hand with a struggle with
First, Vinny is a confuse, witty boy that is very fearful of his friends decisions and afraid of heights.In the passage it states ''Vinny said quickly,''Nah, the water is too cold.''Joe-boy is totally the opposite of Vinny and I will like to share that with you.
In Great Expectations, during the middle of the book, Pip creates a rather low opinion of himself acting arrogant and conceited to others. For example, When Joe is coming to visit Pip, Pip thinks to himself, "I was looking forward to Joe's coming not with pleasure, thought that I was bound to him... If I could have kept him away by paying money, I would have paid money (pg.841). Evan though Joe protected and assisted Pip throughout his juvenile years, Pip was still embarrassed by him. Pip is an ungrateful person showing Joe no gratitude. In addition, when Pip learned who his benefactor was he replied, "The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast (pg.876). Pip is surprised by this intrusion of his mind realizing that Miss Havisham did not raise him to be with Estella. Evan though Pip was not raised to be with Estella he is an vicious human being thinking such vile thoughts against a man that gave him the life of a gentleman. In relation, as Provis lays down to sleep Pip reflects on meeting him, "Then came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperate violent man:" (pg.879). Pip can only think of what horrible things Provis performed. Pip is an unforgiving person, still thinking of Provis as a convict after all he did for him. Pip displays himself as a heartless feign, believing himself to be of upper society and forgetting people who helped him through his journey of life.
Johnny dies from rescuing kids from the burning church that used to be their hideout. After this happens a group of rich kids jump out of their car and threaten Pony. Ponyboy breaks the end off of his soda bottle, and threatens to cut them up. Pony realizes how aghast Two-Bit - a member of the gang - is at his actions, and Two bit tells him, “Ponyboy, listen, don’t get tough. You’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be” (Hinton 171). Two-Bit wouldn’t have cared if anyone else had threatened to cut up someone, but when Ponyboy does, Two-Bit is aghast, and tells him off. He tells Pony that he isn’t like the rest of the gang, and hints that he doesn’t want him to be. Even the gang knows how different Ponyboy is from the rest of them, and they almost become like older brothers to Ponyboy in the way that they protect him. They are all reckless and carefree, but they know Pony well enough to know that he’s not like that. He is quieter, and his experiences of his parent’s and various friend’s deaths has not turned him cold yet. The gang knows this, and they want him to stay that way: good and
The Analysis of Friendship Between Pip and Joe in 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens wrote ‘Great Expectations’ in 1861. It was first published in a magazine called ‘All Year Round’, in serialized form. Every week he would leave the readers wanting to buy the next weeks copy by finishing with a cliff – hanger ending. The story plots the development of Pip, an orphan, from a young boy to adulthood. It begins with his life with his cruel sister and her kind husband Joe, the Blacksmith.
You're my son—more to me nor any son. I've put away money, only for you to spend, " (286) Pip wonders, how this can be? From what Pip has assumed about Magwitch, there is no way he could be his benefactor. The assumed position of Magwitch was a convict, a prisoner, a scary man in Pip’s eyes. But, he is the benefactor.
Joe is a blacksmith and gets treated unfairly because of it and not being wealthy he does not get
ashamed of Joe, because he is a commoner. At this time, Pip is around twenty years old. Estella is still the
Pip encounters all of the influential people in his life during his childhood. The first and most obvious are his family. Mrs. Joe and Joe Gargery, Pip’s sister and brother-in-law, are the only family that Pip has ever known. Mrs. Joe Gargery is Joe’s wife and Pip’s only living relative. She is a very domineering woman who is always punishing Pip for something. Joe is like a father to Pip, who goes to Joe with all of his problems and worries. They are always truthful with each other and protect each other from Mrs. Joe when she is on the rampage. Despite the fact that Joe is an adult, he is also Pip’s only real friend during his childhood. Joe is the most loyal person in Pip’s life.
The first fatherly figure Pip ever had was Joe Gargery. Joe was a great father-like influence because he did many things that a father would do for his son. He cared about Pip’s well-being. “I wish there warn 't no Tickler for you, old chap; I wish I could take it all on myself; but this is the up-and-down-and-straight on it,
Not only does Pip treat Joe differently, Joe also treats Pip differently because of their differences in social class. He begins to call Pip "sir" which bothered him because "sir" was the title given to people of higher class. Pip felt that they were still good friends and that they should treat each other as equals. Joe soon leaves and explains his early parting, "Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Disciples among such must come.."
Although Pip can also be harsh but Joe still treats him with respect and as if he was his father. Joe tells Pip this, “If you can't get to be on common through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked." This also shows that Joe is father figure because of the advice he gives Pip. Overall the character of Joe is portrayed with an attitude and personality of being caring, helpful, a father figure, loveable, and most of all respectful. Because of those qualities Pip sees him as a father figure and many people in the village respect him and trust him because of his integrity.
First, Pip has great expectations Joe. At the beginning of the novel, Pip expects Joe to be a fatherly figure, and protect him from Mrs. Joe and Pip "looking up to Joe in [his] heart" (Dickens 86). Joe and Pip are friends and rely on one another to survive their home life by warning one another when Mrs. Joe "went on the rampage" [173]. However, after Pip receives his benefactor and money, he expects Joe to be a different person than himself. He expects Joe, like himself, overnight, to go from "being co...
Joe's actions are those of a true gentleman. For example, Joe defends Mrs. Joe from Orlick even though he is scared of Orlick himself: "What could the wretched Joe do now...but stand up to his journeyman...so, without so much as pulling off their singed and burnt aprons, they went at one another, like two giants" (773). Joe is intimidated by Orlick and by Joe defending Mrs. Joe from Orlick shows that Joe has courageousness. Joe is a benevolent person by stepping up to Orlick to help Mrs. Joe. In addition, Joe pays off Pip's debts and Pip finds "a receipt for which they had been paid off" (899). Joe paying off Pip's debts shows he is a helpful and caring person. Joe is being considerate by helping Pip become debt-free. It is ironic that Joe helps Pip because Pip hasn't been a considerate person to Joe but he helps Pip regardless.