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sheflovesyou
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Who is Wemmick in "Great Expectations"?  Give two unusual details about his home?  Whom does he live with?

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Posted by sheflovesyou on Monday April 13, 2009 at 7:15 AM and tagged with characters, details, great expectations, gun, home, wemmick.

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  1. lit24
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    In Ch.20 Pip tells us that Wemmick is the attorney Jaggers' clerk: "I then found that Wemmick was the clerk in the next room"

    In Ch.25 Pip spends a delightful evening at Wemmick's house which is situated "in the distict of Walworth."

    Wemmick stays with his old but  physically active father whom he affectionately refers to as the "aged parent."

    The  unusal details about his home are:

    1. Wemmick's house was a small wooden cottage built like a gothic castle with a wooden drawbridge across "a chasm about four feet wide and two deep."

    2. It had a "real flagstaff" from which on Sundays Wemmick hoisted a real flag.

    3. The most unusual item in the house was the "Stinger" or the gun which was fired very precisely at nine o'clock Greenwich time every night.


    Sources:
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    http://www.enotes.com/expectations/essays-criticism
    http://www.enotes.com/expectations/themes

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    Posted by lit24 on Monday April 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM