Inside the story
Meet Wemmick
Mr. Wemmick is Mr. Jaggers’s dry, methodical law clerk, handling business with a cool, transactional manner at the office. Away from work, he is warmly domestic at his home and becomes a friendly guide and ally to Pip.
On the page
A dry man, rather short, with a square wooden face that looks imperfectly chipped out of hard material with a dull chisel, small keen glittering black eyes, thin wide mottled lips and a post-office slit of a mouth; wears several mourning rings and his hat on the back of his head.
