What is the nature of the relationship between Pip and Joe?
At the start of the novel, the relationship between Pip and Joe is close, supportive, and mutually dependent. As Pip gets to know people of hierarchy, Pip starts to disown his Christian values, learned from Joe, and embraces class, status, and wealth.
How is the relationship between Pip and his sister different from the relationship between Pip and Joe?
In contrast, Pip has a strained relationship with his sister, Mrs. Joe, who took him in and raised him “by the hand” after their parents passed away. Mrs. Joe views Pip as a nuisance and continually beats him with the Tickler.
How does the relationship between Pip and Miss Havisham develop?
How does the relationship between Pip and Miss Havisham develop? It has developed into a friendship. She talks to him and tells him things about her life. She likes him because he is one of the few people who isn’t using her to get money.
Does Pip love Joe?
Pip does love Joe “perhaps for no better reason in those days than because the dear fellow let me love him,” and he fears losing his “confidence.” So, theirs is a fraternal friendship. Having become dissatisfied with his job as apprentice to Joe and ashamed of his home, Pip eagerly embraces his new opportunity.
Who is Joe gargery Pip?
Joe Gargery is, of course, Pip’s brother-in-law because he is married to Pip’s sister. He is also, officially, Pip’s master because Pip is apprenticed to him. On an unofficial level, their relationship is not really a master-apprentice relationship or an older relative-younder relative one.
Why did Magwitch become Pip’s benefactor?
His decision to fund Pip’s transformation into a gentleman is motivated by his desire to get a vicarious taste of all the things he could not experience himself: “I’ve come to the old country to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman.
Why did Pip fall in love with Estella?
PIP’S LOVE OF ESTELLA Why? The most obvious answer is that he is attracted to her beauty and her social superiority; she is the remote princess of fairy tales. And so the the prospect of Pip’s gaining her love would be remote as well.