When Pip goes to London, he meets a variety of new people. One of these people is Wemmick. When Pip first meets Wemmick, he describes him as “…a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel.” (169) But later, when Pip goes to Wemmick’s house, he becomes almost a different person. Wemmick explains that “When I go into the office, I leave the castle behind me, and when I come to the castle, I leave the office behind me.” (207) This sets a definite line between work and private life.
This is very different from work and private life in the village. Joe is a blacksmith, and his forge is connected to the house. He is the exact same way that he is in the forge as he is at home. For Joe, there is to line between his work and private life.
Both these examples show how far apart city life and country life can be, and how hard it will be to adjust.
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