Great Expectations By Charles Dickens - 1622 Words

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, a conflict between a young boy named Pip and his sister s husband named Joe formed complex father-son relationship. This relationship has many ups and downs that result in Pip s journey to becoming an experienced adult. The conflicting feelings between Pip and Joe contribute to the long lasting nature of this book because of their similarities to life in the real world. Whether it is Pip s embarrassment of Joe s common blacksmith social class, or a son who is embarrassed by his father s intellect, their relationship is key to the novel s development as a whole. It is through Pip s relationship with Joe that we are presented with the insecurities and flaws of a young man s relationship†¦show more content†¦In fact, Mrs. Joe didn t even want to bring Pip into their home, but Joe protested and said, Bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child, there s room for him at the forge. When we see this it suggests Joe s imm ediate friendship with Pip and how their friendship would soon immediately prosper because of the connection Joe has made to Pip s circumstance. Joe, for the most part, had a terrible father, and he acts like the complete opposite of how his father acted with him. Joe was never able to receive an education because his father did not believe it to be important. However, Joe wants Pip to receive an education and to learn how to read, and this provides us with one of the key scenes that demonstrates how closely connected he is to Pip, when Pip is teaching him how to read. This shows the love and respect Pip has for Joe in a profound way to share his newfound knowledge with his father figure. Shifting towards the middle of Pip’s journey, the relationship between him and Joe begins to tumultuously spiral out of control for the both of them. The gap had grown too large for either of them to overcome, and Pip wanted more than what Joe could provide. Pip wanted to become a gen tleman and even says, †I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.† This reveals Pip’s discord with the circumstances in which he was brought