Major Characters Pip: the narrator of the story. Pip is an orphan being raised by his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery and her husband, Mr. Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Mrs. Joe Gargery: the bitter, angry sister of Pip who brings him up "by hand." Mr. Joe Gargery: a kind blacksmith. Pip sees him as an equal and a friend at the beginning of the story. Joe is uneducated but he understands the important things in life. …showed first 75 words of 463 total…

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