Sketch of Joe Gargery Joe Gargery might not be the smartest or wisest of Dickens' characters, but he is definitely one of the kindest and most humane. Although Miss Havisham gets much attention for being different, I think that you will soon be convinced that Joe, however simple he may be, is definitely a unique character. It is my opinion that Dickens made an effort to raise the readers respect for Joe by the sharp contrast between him and his wife. Three qualities belonging to Joe are his affectionate
Character of Joe Gargery in Great Expectations The protagonist's brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, in the novel Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, is prominently humane, especially compared to the other characters. Although Pip is the psychological center of the book, Joe is the moral center. Pip struggles to be good; Joe merely is obedient by nature without apprehending it. Although Joe is not prosperous or knowledgeable, he still offers what he does know and have, to Pip. Joe provides
In Great Expectations one of the characters is Pip’s brother in law, Joe Gargery. In the passage Joe is married to a women known as Mrs. Joe. Joe’s actions show that he is very caring gentleman and does everything for the benefit of his loved ones. Joe and Pip have a strong relationship such as a father and son or as brothers. This character is uneducated and doesn’t really have any aspirations. Throughout the story Joe is a very generous humble man and doesn’t ask anything in return, for example;
characterized differently and carefully. Mr. Joe Gargery and Miss Estella are two very vibrant characters in the novel. Joe and Estella are almost opposites of each other and play a very important role in Pip’s life. Joe is a compassionate and paternal figure. Meanwhile, Estella is heartless, cruel, and scornful. These polar opposite figures are characterized as such by Dickens and play fundamental parts in Pip’s voyage from childhood to adulthood. Joe Gargery is one of the most compassionate characters
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
male role models were his brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, and the journeyman blacksmith, Dolge Orlick. However, the impression these men make on Pip differs. He considers them opposites and leads his audience to the same conclusion. Pip's education and molding is altered by meeting Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella. According to Paul Pickrel, "In the normal course of events he will be apprenticed to his brother-in-law, the blacksmith Joe Gargery; he will learn blacksmithing, and he will
style. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens has written a social commentary using the development of his characters to illustrate his message. In my paper, I will concentrate on three of the main characters, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella, and Joe Gargery. During the time when he lived, Dickens recognized many evils in society. In Great Expectations he focused on the problem of the whole idea of a class in society. It was a social commentary on society. His way to illustrate the solution to the
showing that it produces good deeds as well as good words. Its admirable briskness is nowhere more apparent than in Pip¡¦s account of the feelings with which he once greeted the prospect of a visit from his old friend and protector, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. ¡§Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties, with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money.¡¨ (218) There
this novel was written after Charles met Ellen. Dickens often wrote about his personal life in his novels as with the sense of abandonment he wrote about in “David Copperfield” (par. 12). His sister and blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery, brought up pip as an orphan. Pip and Joe had a close personal relationship, possibly because they were said to be both “Brought up by hand” (Dickens, 6). Pip’s guardians brought him up to know the difference between right and wrong. After doing wrong Pip often feels
towards his brothers “five stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long”. As this quote suggest his brothers are all dead and Pip gives the impression of slight ignorance to the situation. The audience is told of the one sole relative who is Mrs Joe Gargery, who is the wife of the local blacksmith. Dickens continues to write Pip as retelling his early childhood. This entire section is devoted to a long, bleak and even scary description of his town in the “marsh country, down near the river, within…
attitudes of work. He gives examples of various kinds of work through each different character. On one extreme the idea of "gentlemanly" work is depicted through the character of the lawyer, Jaggers. On the opposite end of the spectrum there is Joe Gargery in his role as the village blacksmith, the "non-gentlemanly" depiction of work. In a novel that is built around the main character longing to become a gentleman, Dickens uses the theme or motif of "work" in order to display the ambivalence of
serene life because of his great ability to forgive is Joe Gargery. Ever since he was a child, Joe demonstrated his amazing quality of forgiveness. He grew up having a father who was an alcoholic. When Joe's dad came home, he would beat Joe and his mother and they would run away. When they were away from Joe's dad, Joe would start school but his dad would always find his stray family, pull Joe out of school, and bring them home. For this reason, Joe lived most of his life an illiterate man. He could
main characters Joe Gargery knows that he does not need to change what he wears and how he talks for anyone. Dicken’s makes many characters in his books representations of issues in the world, and Joe is a representation of a good person. Joe’s disposition towards people is more enlightened than those in the upper class, and is satisfied with how his life has turned out. Joe acts respectful of everyone no matter what class they are in or what life position they are in. When Joe visits Pip in London
characters that shows this well is Joe Gargery. He is a blacksmith, which in the Victorian Era, was in the lower social class. He is treated unfairly and is not treated like “one to have money,” meaning he is treated differently because he is not wealthy. Those who were wealthy, earned their respect because of their money, and without money Joe is not naturally
How has the relationship changed between Pip and Joe Gargery? The relationship between Pip and Joe changes dramatically. As Pip gets older and has turned into a gentleman, Joe has stayed the same, with his clumsy actions and lack of manners. This creates a divide between what used to be a loving relationship. When Pip was a small boy, he felt close to Joe, as Joe was like a father figure and Pip looked up to him. This meant that Joe and Pip had a very strong bond and they were very close
obstacles they have faced and the way they approach them. The two characters who mainly changed were Joe Gargery and Pip. Joe Gargery is the brother in law of Pip Pirrip one of the main characters in the novel Great Expectations. Joe Gargery is married to Pips sister, and he is also the village’s blacksmith. Throughout the novel Joe Gargery personality is revealed as more of the story forms. Since Joe is the blacksmith of the village he is always there when people need him to fix their belongings.
and Joe Gargery, the husband of Pip’s Sister, Mrs. Joe. Joe and Pip’s relationship is analogous to a mother’s bond with her child, whereas Pip and Mrs. Joe’s relationship is like a father’s bond with his child. Mrs. Joe and Joe are a working class couple who have taken care of Pip since his parents and other siblings passed. Mrs. Joe claims to have brought Pip up “by hand” (Dickens 6). Mrs. Joe is a very stern women who dickens reveals uses corporal punishment quite often on both Pip and Joe. Her
figure, Joe Gargery. Joe Gargery is a rather important character to the story because without his role in Pip’s life, Pip would not have been the man that he became later on. Joe Gargery is a hardworking man who is loyal and fair to himself, his wife, and even Pip. He holds a job as the village blacksmith, as an understanding husband who only tries to do well for his wife, and aims to be a loving father to Pip regardless of the troubles in his life. In chapter two of the book, Joe Gargery is described
young man, but at the end he has become a fine, morale young man. In the beginning, Pip, an orphan, considers himself to be a common laboring boy, but he has a desire to improve his station in life. He is raised by his sister, and her husband, Joe Gargery. Then Pip meets Estella, the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham, an old lady who is bitter and eccentric. Estella taunts Pip and is very cruel to him, but he still falls in love with her. Miss Havisham is teaching Estella to hurt men, because
into obedience, Pip runs to the house he shares with his overbearing sister and her kindly husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. The boy stashes some bread and butter in one leg of his pants, but he is unable to get away quickly. It is Christmas Eve, and Pip is forced to stir the holiday pudding all evening. His sister, whom Pip calls Mrs. Joe, thunders about. She threatens Pip and Joe with her cane, which she has named Tickler, and with a foul-tasting concoction called tar-water. Very early the next