 Work in the law office with each other
 Harsh approach to clients, often appearing impatient
 Father-figures to Pip
 Invite Pip to dine with them
 Both of their “comfort zones” are described in detail by
Dickens
 Wemmick’s Castle and Jaggers’ office
 Symbolizing the connection between these two characters
 Throughout the book, there is no mention of any
family of Mr. Jaggers, while we see Mr. Wemmick’s
family (the Aged, Miss Skiffins) multiple times.
 Mr. Wemmick eventually marries Miss Skiffins (away
from the office at Walworth and asks Pip to be his best
man, but to not tell Mr. Jaggers about the wedding)
 Mr. Jaggers’s personality is consistent throughout the
story while Mr. Wemmick’s changes greatly depending
on his location.
 Working in the same law office, Mr. Jaggers and Mr. Wemmick are foils
for each other, Jaggers being a static character, and Wemmick being a
developing character.
 Wemmick has a duel personality split between his work life (the
London office), and his home life (at Walworth).
 Mr. Jaggers uses his “office personality” as his only personality.
 (pg. 208)
 “This strongly marked way of doing business made a strongly marked
impression on me, and that not of an agreeable kind. Mr. Jaggers never
laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising
himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows
joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to
creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.”
 Jaggers (pg 145)
 `My name,' he said, `is Jaggers, and I am a lawyer in
London. I am pretty well known. I have unusual
business to transact with you, and I commence by
explaining that it is not of my originating. If my advice
had been asked, I should not have been here. It was not
asked, and you see me here. What I have to do as the
confidential agent of another, I do. No less, no more.'
 The first impression we have of him is consistent with his
character throughout the book therefore making him a static
character.
 Wemmick (pg 179)
 CASTING my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he
was like in the light of day, I found him to be 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. There were
some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had
been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only
dints. The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at
embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort
to smooth them off. I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed
condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many
bereavements; for, he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a
brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn
on it. I noticed, too, that several rings and seals hung at his watch
chain, as if he were quite laden with remembrances of departed friends.
He had glittering eyes -- small, keen, and black -- and thin wide
mottled lips. He had had them, to the best of my belief, from forty to
fifty years.
 While this first impression is correct, it only qualifies Wemmick in his office life.

Pip dines with both Mr. Jaggers and Mr. Wemmick at separate times and at one time dines with both
together.

Pip’s dinner with Mr. Jaggers does not introduce any knew mannerisms of Mr. Jaggers but does
introduce Molly, who we later learn was saved by Mr. Jaggers along with her daughter.
 Molly’s story adds another dimension to Mr. Jaggers personality (his compassion to a woman and
her child), but is still compatible with our previous impressions of him.

Pip’s dinner with Mr. Wemmick introduces him to Wemmick’s alter ego, the cheery family man and to
the Aged Parent and Miss Skiffins.

The dinner with both is odd because Wemmick recently had a meeting with Pip at Walworth where
he told Pip to wait for instruction from him regarding Magwitch but Wemmick doesn’t even interact
with Pip in this meeting.
 “Although I should not have thought of making, in that place, the most distant reference by so
much as a look to Wemmick's Walworth senti- ments, yet I should have had no objection to
catching his eye now and then in a friendly way. But it was not to be done. He turned his eyes on
Mr. Jaggers whenever he raised them from the table, and was as dry and distant to me as if there
were twin Wemmicks and this was the wrong one.” (pg 412)

After the meal, Wemmick explains himself, also explaining to the reader how his personality works.
 `Well!' said Wemmick, `that's over! He's a wonderful man, without his living likeness; but I feel
that I have to screw myself up when I dine with him -- and I dine more comfortably unscrewed.' I
felt that this was a good statement of the case, and told him so. `Wouldn't say it to anybody but
yourself,' he answered. `I know that what is said between you and me, goes no further.' (pg 415)
 Wemmick
 Wemmick is obsessed with “Portable Property,” valuable
items that are movable and stresses the importance of it
to Pip.
 In Newgate Prison, Wemmick goes around to former clients
who soon will be executed and asks for any of their valuable
possessions
 Jaggers
 Does not meet with the families of his clients except to
settle monetary issues, showing almost everything he
does is for business, as that is what his life revolves
around.
 Wemmick
 Compare
 Both he and Pip are developing characters and are the two
prime examples of changing personalities depending on
location and surroundings.
 Contrast
 His life consists of traveling between London and his
home (Walworth), while Pip’s buildungsroman
ultimately ends away from London in his original home
 Mr. Jaggers
 Compare
 Besides their obvious association with Abel Magwitch, both
Mr. Jaggers and Pip (for a while) treat the lower classes with
disdain.
(Mr. Jaggers sets this example for Pip when he throws these
people out of his office and Pip exemplifies this in his
dealings with Joe)
 Contrast
 While Pip has a multifaceted personality (as a result of being
influenced by a wide variety of people that he encounters),
Mr. Jaggers personality is unwavering throughout the story.
 Both Wemmick and Jaggers know that they are dealing
with the scum of the earth and each deal with that in
their own way, depending on their personality
 Wemmick seperates his office life from his home life
because he is able to unlike…
 Jaggers who merely washes his hands multiple times
because he cannot psyschalogically separate his life in
two [addition by me (or cannot afford to separate his
life because it would hurt his business by making him
appear weak)
 When Wemmick’s home and office lives collide
 `Wemmick, I know you to be a man with a gentle heart. I have seen your pleas-
ant home, and your old father, and all the innocent cheerful playful ways with
which you refresh your business life. And I entreat you to say a word for me to
Mr Jaggers, and to represent to him that, all circumstances considered, he ought
to be more open with me!‘ I have never seen two men look more oddly at one
another than Mr Jaggers and Wemmick did after this apostrophe. At first, a misgiving crossed me that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his
employment; but, it melted as I saw Mr Jaggers relax into something like a
smile, and Wemmick become bolder. `What's all this?' said Mr Jaggers. `You
with an old father, and you with pleasant and playful ways ?‘ `Well!' returned
Wemmick. `If I don't bring 'em here, what does it matter?‘ `Pip,' said Mr
Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, `this man must be
the most cunning impostor in all London.‘ `Not a bit of it,' returned Wemmick,
growing bolder and bolder. `I think you're another.‘ Again they exchanged their
former odd looks, each apparently still distrustful that the other was taking him
in. `You with a pleasant home?' said Mr Jaggers. `Since it don't interfere with
business,' returned Wemmick, `let it be so. Now, I look at you, sir, I shouldn't
wonder if you might be planning and contriving to have a pleasant home of your
own, one of these days, when you're tired of all this work.‘ Mr Jaggers nodded
his head retrospectively two or three times, and actually drew a sigh.

Jaggers is direct, but he is not a bad man. He saves Molly and Estella because he knows
what would happen if they went to prison (evidenced by his speech on 339-340), but his
personality does not permit him to become emotionally attached to them (or anyone
else) because that would interfere and can be a possible detriment to his job and can be
viewed as weakness. He seeks his security in control and power, and decides to throw off
emotions and people He pays a cost in his life, but accepts it.

Wemmick is the transition character between Joe and Jaggers. He acts like Joe at home
and like Mr. Jaggers at the office. This is why he and Pip become so close and why he
invites Pip to his wedding as his best man. When he interacts with Pip away from
Walworth, he risks mixing his two personalities in London, something he does not want
to do. That is why he reasserts his office personality by being harsh to clients in the office
in front of Pip and why he tells Pip at his wedding that Jaggers should not know of this.
Wemmick is obsessed with “portable property" because he, unlike Mr. Jaggers, he’s not
rich and has a family to support. But separate from his office life he is creative and
emotional (even gets married). His true personality is the one we see at Walworth, but he
simply cannot act that way because Mr. Jaggers would not tolerate someone so opposite
from his own personality.