Great expectation blog #1

Mrs. Joe:
“By this time my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.”

Mrs. Joe is an all-powerful women who is very hostile toward Joe and Pip and others in the book. While on the other hand Joe is a mild, good-natured, sweet tempered, and easy going guy, who lets Mrs. Joe in some ways take advantage of him. Mrs. Joe is very short tempered and when someone gets on her nerves she shows it. Mrs. Joe has a lot of control over Joe and she would show that power through abusing him and pip. She is the dominate person, the leader of the house hold, and she proves this trait by abusing pip and Joe. Joe is a very kind and quiet man who lets Mrs. Joe take advantage of him, and convinces Pip that she is a "Fine figure of a woman" which isn't quite true in the eyes of the reader, one would not quite understand why Joe even married her in the first place. She also is very rude and cruel to Pip, she always reminds him she "raised him by hand" and creates fear for him. She makes sure that if she was hitting Joe or if she was hitting Pip the other wouldn't say anything or go against what she was doing. “By this time my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.” This quote is a great example of how Mrs. Joe treats the boys, like children, and though they arent the age of children somethimes they act like them. When they compare bit sizes or when they watch out for eachother for eachother and trip eachother. Through this book Mrs. Joe will keep abusing Pip and Joe unless someone stands up for them and tells her she is in the wrong.