Pip

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Illustration of Joe Gargery standing with clenched fists in a smithy, a man cowering on the floor, and Pip working at the forge in the background, from Great Expectations.

Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham sits in a decaying, cobweb-covered dining room beside a young boy in a scene from the 1946 film Great Expectations, directed by David Lean.

Quick Facts

Byname of:: Philip Pirrip

Great Expectations — Great Expectations Joe Gargery (left) gazing upon a man whom he has struck while his brother-in-law Pip looks on from behind; illustration by Charles Green for an 1898 edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

Pip

fictional character

Also known as: Philip Pirrip

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Pip, fictional character, the young orphan whose growth and development are the subject of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations (1860–61).

This article was most recently revised and updated by John M. Cunningham.