One of the more recent characters is Mr. Wemmick. He works with Mr. Jaggers as an attorney for the defensive court. Throughout the times that Pip meets Mr. Wemmick, he notices every time that his hands smell like hand soap. Mr. Wemmick admits that he washes away the guilt from defending criminals in court with the hand soap. Through that, Pip is exposed to more of the real world an how a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to get into a good place in life.
One of the motifs in the book, Great Expectations by, Charles Dickens, that we had discussed in class was guilt. Pip felt guilty for being ashamed of where he was raised and where his life was going and so he made a difference and did what he had to do change that, even though it made him feel so bad. Even though he didn't like his sister one bit he still felt guilty for not being with her enough and now she's gone and he hadn't once actually appreciated his sister "raising him by hand".
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