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We learn of Joe Gargery’s influence on Pip in the
opening chapters of the novel. 
(1)
Joe is illiterate and
finds it difficult to communicate his thoughts and
feelings in words, but there is an innate gentleness
and kindness to the man that Pip is very conscious
of. For example, he tries his best to protect Pip from
his sister who has brought him up ‘by hand’ and
with frequent punishments from the ‘tickler’. Joe and
Pip have a natural understanding about Mrs Joe’s
‘rampages’ and although the blacksmith is not
strong enough to stand up to his wife, he tries his
best to warn Pip of impending trouble. Equally, Joe is
ill-at-ease when Uncle Pumblechook, Wopsle and Mr
and Mrs Hubble dine with them because they are so
full of petty snobberies, greed and pretensions. 
(2)
He
lacks the strength to assert himself in front of these
absurd people, but he reaches an unspoken
understanding with Pip about them. 
(3)
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Furthermore, 
(1)
when Magwitch, the convict,
apologises to Joe on the marshes for having stolen a
dram of liquor and a pie from the smithy (Magwitch
here is protecting Pip who has been responsible for
taking them), Joe shows his natural sympathy and
humanity by saying, ‘we wouldn’t have you starved
to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur, would
us, Pip?’ 
(2)
Pip learns a lesson here about showing
kindness to the most wretched of human beings, a
lesson he will in time forget and only remember
when he has reached a low point in his own life. Pip
feels his first feelings of guilt about Joe when he is
unable to be honest with Joe about having stolen the
file from the smithy. 
(3)
This is the first real sign of a
rift between the two, which will gradually increase
to a chasm. 
(4)