An unknown author said,” Friends come and go but family is forever.” In this quote the author is saying how friends will always enter your life and leave however your family still stays with you through the hard and easy times. In the book Great Expectations by Charles Darwin, Pip, the main protagonist, changes his attitude towards his best friend and bother-in-law Joe Gargery by considering Joe lower class than him. Joe, on the other hand, remains kind and nice to Pip throughout the entire book providing him with a shoulder when he is in need and a happy face when he is happy. Joe proves that wealth does not mean happiness and being poor does not mean that you are not friendly. Joe has multiple qualities about him such as he is friendly, loyal, and caring which makes him an ideal figure. Joe is a true family member and friend everyone needs and wants. From the beginning, Joe is friendly towards everyone he meets even though everyone might not be friendly back. Joe proves this when he first encounters a convict and realizes the convict stole a file and a piece of pie from Joe’s house. After hearing this, Joe says,” ‘God knows you’re welcome to it - so far as it was ever mine,’ returned Joe, with a saving remembrance of Mrs. Joe. ‘We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur. - Would us, Pip?’”( 68)In this Joe is saying how he forgives the convict for stealing because he would not want a person no matter