Part one of term paper
Before Charles Dickens story of Great Expectations begins, Pip’s parents and brothers are killed. Pip’s sister, his only living relative, becomes his guardian, and she marries the blacksmith Joe Gargery. Joe and Pip form a very close relationship. However, neither Joe nor Pip embrace a father-son relationship. Since Joe and Pip do ...

Part two of term paper
... adopt a role as father for Pip. We see Joe’s reluctance to accept this role one night when a group was “assembled round the fire at the Three Jolly Bargemen” (133). When Jaggers comes and offers to take Pip to London, Joe does feel as though he is losing something, but he certainly did not feel as though he was losing a son. We can learn more about Joe’s behaviour through what does not say than through what he does. After Jaggers reveals that he has “with an offer to ...