Examine Pip's Relationships With The Main Female Characters In The Novel Great Expectations
...or a father to look after him, they died when he was younger, and this caused his older sister Mrs.Joe to have to look after him. Throughout the story, Pip has a large number of women who influence him in many different ways. First there is his sister, Mrs. Joe, then Biddy, Mrs.Havisham, and Estella. They all changed his life in different ways, yet they all contribute to how Pip is as a person.
I think the best person to begin with would probably be Mrs.Joe. She brought Pip up from being a child. She brought him up "by hand". She always bragged about how she took such good care of him, when in reality, she beat him, and treat him terribly. She really did believe that she was bringing Pip up well, and that he wasn't grateful
for anything she gave him. She made him feel like he wasn't wanted, and that he was nothing to her and she's very full of herself.
"If it warn't for me you'd have been to
the churchyard long ago, and stayed
there. Who brought you up by hand?"
Mrs.Joe isn't just mean to Pip, her own husband is affraid of her, she's not satisfied with anything he get's her either.
"It's bad enough to be a blacksmith's
wife (and him a Gargery) without
being your mother."
So it's like she hates her life, she hates her husband, and she hates the fact that she has to take care of Pip.
The tickler, it was something that Mrs.Joe used to beat Pip.
"Tickler was awax-ended piece of
cane, worn smooth by collision
with my tickled frame."
Pip referred
to his sister as basically
a aggressive
obsessive compulsive controlling
woman, even the way she cut her bread was mean, she was just aggressive
in everything she did. Her husband was so affraid that he might beat him he has to walk home with his mouth open, so that she doesn't small the rum on his breath to know that he's...
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