Opposite Personalities

After reading about Pip's visit with Wemmick, I suspected a keen sense of strange behavior on Wemmick's part. At work Wemmick is all about hard work and focus, whereas at home he becomes more loose and sympathetic to his surroundings. That being said, I am not very sure what to make of this. How come people act with two completely opposite personalities depending on the setting they are in and the faces around them? Even though Wemmick comes home from work each day like any other business man would, the world he enters is not what you would suspect; a fantasy filled world. His house supposedly represents a castle with a bridge that is at the entrance of this castle and a flagpole right outside. Wemmick is always talking about his flagpole, and how he pulls it up and down at a certain time each and every day. By him doing this action shows his true pride and love for his home life. He acts with innocence which is not something you appear to see very often. Labor, hard work, and the drive to do so is what makes a grown man a success. The only way to get his mind off of work was to enter his comfortable state of what we call "home". Kids our age can relate to what Wemmick is experiencing, but not for the same reasons that is. Rather than being exposed to the business world, we experience homework and drama. School--a place where you can have fun when necessary, but seriousness is key when you want to succeed and achieve. Once that bell rings at the end of every school day, do you get a sense of relief--all of the pressure and stress has been lifted from your shoulders and you feel the need to just take in your surroundings with a deep steady breath? When you step off the bus and open the door to your home what do you do? Do you go back to the mindset of school, or relax and enjoy your few moments of peace and freedom before the next day creeps up and your fantasy ends and reality hits once again? What you make of your fantasy world is up to you, but for Wemmick it means staying calm and collected while expressing love to his family. Do not judge a book by its cover, because what you see on the outside is definitely not everything. What matters the most is the inside. Wemmick may not look to be an innocent gentleman to the human eye, but his actions express what his mind is really imagining. Wemmick, not only has the love to be successful, be the love for his family as well.

Pip's Life At Home

Life at home for Joe is definitely not like the lives we live today. He is just an innocent young boy that doesn't know much about how life works yet; he doesn't know right from wrong. His sister and her husband are definitely very hard on him and get annoyed with every little thing he does, if Pip would ask a question his sister would just tell him to go away, or not speak of that, The time when his sister went out looking for him after he was out in the churchyard, she got very angry. I think this is because she is very protective of him since they are the only ones left of Pip's family. She feels she needs to fill the responsibilty that her mother left her with of caring for Pip. If I were to be gone from home for awhile my mom would definitely come looking for me, but not the way his sister did. She went with a tickler--an abusive tool--so that if she found him he would experience this device. It is against the law now to abuse children, but back then it wasn't. Life was a struggle for little Pip; not being able to have a mom or dad to care for you. All he wanted was a few questions answered, and all he got in return was ignorance and disrespect.