One night, when Pip and Joe are alone at the forge, Joe explains his various reasons for enduring Mrs. ... It is then that he developed "a new admiration of Joe from that night" and "a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart" (48). ... As Pip describes, "the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands. ...
One night Pip has a visitor at his chambers; he is horrified to discover that it is the convict of his childhood, introducing himself as Abel Magwitch, alias Provis. ... Pip is mysteriously asked to a night appointment in an old lime kiln on the Kent marshes. ... She is an unhappy widow, having married Drummle, and has at last learnt the importance of sympathy and tenderness. ...
As Pip is staying at a hotel one night, a man called Magwitch reveals himself as Pip's benefactor. ... "Even in the character of the protagonist there are marked differences from that of his creator: combined with his demonstrated tenderness there was in Dickens a hard, almost ruthless streak which is omitted entirely from the character of his consistently gentle hero." ...
He tells Pip, "You and me are not two figures to be together in London; nor yet anywheres else but what is private, and beknown, and understood among friends (Dickens, 222)", which conveys Joe's tenderness and ache from Pip's expectations of becoming something better than Joe and his past. ... Until one night, his convict, Magwitch appears and informs Pip that he is the benefactor. ...
