Who Is The First Confidant

Throughout Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, Pip finds many people that he can confide in and talk to. These characters are known as confidants if they are male, and confidantes if they are female. Along his journey, Pip constantly meets people that he finds he can find in, and Charles Dickens uses them to advance the plot, as well as give Pip and the audience someone to connect with. The first confidant, Joe, is in the book for an interesting function, as he is present throughout the novel. In the beginning, he is present to provide Pip a friend and listening ear to talk to in a hostile family setting. Then, at the end of the novel, he becomes the confidant that helps Pip in his time of greatest need and bails him out of arrest
She functions in this novel as the female character that Pip can confide in, as well as a potential romantic interest, a voice of reason, and the only female confidante that Pip meets in the story. She is also used to bring another confidant, Joe, comfort and love to him when his wife dies. Herbert is one of the most important confidants in the story and is the next one that Pip encounters. This confidant serves to give Pip a true and honest friend, one that bonds with him and one that will confide in him as much as Pip confides in him. This confidant serves to be the best friend that Pip has in the story and is the one positive outcome of Pip’s great expectations when he invests to make Pip a partner of Clerriker and Co. In return, Herbert provides Pip with a career when Magwitch dies, and the two bond and become nearly inseparable throughout the tale. Wemmick is the last major confidant in the story, and is very interesting. He serves as one Pip’s financial helpers, and he helps keep Pip’s life interesting, whether it be inviting him to dinner or taking him to his wedding. Wemmick also helped protect Pip when Orlick was about looking for him, warning him not go home to his