"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Divisions among such must come, and must be met as they come." Pip was influenced greatly by four people: Joe of influencing Pip's decisions. However all four characters greatly affected Pip in Gargery, Herbert Pocket, Miss Havisham, and Abel Magwitch. Each person had a different way his quest to become a gentleman.
Joe Gargery is Pip's foster father as well as his brother in-law. But Joe and Pip bo…