Wemmick

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In Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, Wemmick is Mr. Jaggers' clerk and Pip's friend and one of the strangest characters.

At work, he is hard, cynical, sarcastic, and obsessed with “portable property”; at home in Walworth, he is jovial, wry, and a tender caretaker of his father, who himself is referred to as "The Aged Parent", "The Aged P.” or simply "The Aged". Wemmick is Pip's chief go-between with Jaggers and generally looks after Pip in London.

At work John Wemmick is a bill collector for the lawyer Mr Jaggers; the job requires a demanding, uncaring attitude, a personality the working Wemmick takes on. To impress and stay in favour of Mr. Jaggers, Mr. Wemmick berates his clients with disdain and mistrust. But Wemmick's home life is filled with smiles, cheer, and joy, as he lives happily away from work. His house is modelled as a castle, complete with a drawbridge, cannon and moat. Wemmick feels protected by his house from the outside cruel and harsh reality that he works with at his job.

His fiancée Miss Skiffins is a great joy in his life. The way he acts with Miss Skiffins is indicative of a second personality, as in the way in which he plays a game of trying to keep his arm around her. Their marriage was quite peculiar in how it was brought about, he made it seem very out of chance and pretended to be surprised at how it happened.