Love and friends

-Pip fall in love with the beautiful and haughty adopted daughter of Miss Havisham, Estella, who
taunts and attracts him.

The first time they met, Estella looked at Pip scornfully, and she also said that she would not play
with a common working boy. Moreover, she made him ashamed of his clothes, boots and himself

The first impression of Pip about her was of a proud, pretty and rude girl. Do you agree with him?

Years later, Estella has not changed her feelings, and also she married Bently Drummle, who dies.

At the end, Pip visits Satis house that had been pulled down, and met Estella, whose heart has
melted. Do you think that the Satis house symbolized Estella’s heart?

-Biddy is a simple, kind-hearted country girl. After Mrs. Joe is attacked and becomes an invalid,
Biddy moves into Pip’s home to care for her. She was not beautiful, she was “common, and could
not be like Estella” but she was pleasant and wholesome and sweet-tempered. Also, she was plain,
kind, moral, and of Pip’s own social class.

The whole point of this description is the Biddy is basically the anti-Estella: common, but kind,
pleasant, sweet, thoughtful, and attentive.

She also grows up to be in love with Pip, but he only notices her long enough to say that he wishes
he could just force himself to fall in love with her already. The one thing we can't quite understand
is why she ends up marrying Joe at the end of the novel. Does she see marrying Joe as a way of
getting closer to Pip? Could she possibly have fallen in love with an illiterate man whose goodness
knows how many years older than she is?

-Joe Gargery is Pip’s brother-in-law and the village blacksmith. Joe’s quiet goodness makes him
one of the few completely sympathetic characters in Great Expectations. Although he is
uneducated and unrefined, he consistently acts for the benefit of those he loves and suffers in
silence when Pip treats him coldly.

Because of the book, we can describe him as a fair man, mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered,
easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,—a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness.

That's some nice direct characterization to start us off, and everything that Joe does or says proves
Pip's point, like how he pays off all of Pip's debts and then sneaks away in the middle of the night
so Pip won't be ashamed of him.

Joe may not be comfortable in the city, and he may act like a dweeb around Miss Havisham, but
we don't think he has anything to be embarrassed about. He's basically the perfect man. Do you
consider Joe as the most faithfully of Pip friends?
 -Herbert and Pip were the best friends, but they started out fighting in Miss Havisham’s house.
Herbert challenged Pip to a gentleman fight, which Pip easily won. They later met at Mr Jaggers´
office in Little Britain, where he told Pip the reason of Estella´s being. Then, they lived together in
London and became best friends. At first, Herbert helped Pip a little with the gentlemanliness
lessons, but Pip thinks that his friend isn’t going to be very successful or rich.

Pip is almost right but at the end, he realize that he never really appreciated his friend, that the
inaptitude he thought he saw in Herbert was really more about Pip himself. Do you think that Pip
and Herbert became best friends because of Pip ´gentleman social class?

-John Wemmick is a bill collector for the lawyer Mr Jaggers, who becomes friends with Pip. The
job requires a demanding, uncaring attitude, a personality the working Wemmick takes on. Do you
think that’s right? To impress and stay in the favour of his boss, Mr Jaggers, he berates Jaggers's
clients with disdain. Wemmick is more outwardly pleasant at home and in personal life. He gave
Abel Magwitch Pip’s address. He helped Pip and Magwitch to escape. Do you think that wemmick
has an important role in the story?