1) Now that Pip is 21, he is a man in this culture. He is now in charge of his own money. How well do you think he will handle that responsibility?
2) What possible motivation would the benefactor have for not revealing their identity?
3) Does Wemmick provide sound advice concerning Pip's desire to help Herbert out? What advice do you think he would have given if he were at Walworth?
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ReplyDelete3) Wemmick does provide Pip with sound advice concerning his want to help Herbert out. It is very common that when people “invest portable property in a friend” (Dickens, 292) that it results in “a less plesant and profitable end.” (292) This is very much a business-like way to look at the situation as it is a well-known fact in that world friends and business don’t mix. When we look at how Wemmick acts at work this answer matches that personality that he has created very well. The advice he would have given Pip at home would’ve been much different just like Wemmick’s different personalities. The response may have been more welcoming of the subject, as at home Wemmick welcomes new ideas and doing what you love. Wemmick at home is in fact “[his] own engineer, and [his] own carpenter, and [his] own plumber… and [his] own jack of all trades.” (206) I can see him being very excited and eager that Pip wants to try something new with a friend as it seems that Wemmick secretly wishes that he was brave enough to do something like that himself.
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