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Wemmick's personality

Wemmick's split personality has ties with the phrase "keeping work and pleasure seperate is the key to success." If he is a collector, how ruthless can he be to someone who he feels sorry for? And how can he keep his mind on work if he is thinking about home life? Therefore, he washes the good side away and simply allows every flaw he has take over, so he can go forth wothout the hindrance of emotion. Dickens is trying to show the cruel air of buisnessmen in London, as they will go so low as to take rings from a widow, the last memory of a lonely soul's former companion, without regret or a second thought. This is all part of the main character, Pip's, experiences in London. Dickens is portraying just how much of a scummy bunch of soulless, compassionless theives and murderers the citizens of London were. Even if Wemmick is really a nice person at home, a man's actions define who he is, and no matter how pure he is at home, it will never make up for the sins he commits when he is at work.

Wemmick, while trying to seperate thoughts of home, instead strangles off his good side, and it even starts to affect him at home, as evidenced when he talks happily about the rings that adorn the chain on his watch, saying despite not beind worth much, they were still a possession he could take as payment, even from the poorest of the poor. Dickens is still communicating the idea of the citizens of London's impurity. Even though Wemmick has a good side, it may never surface again if he continues supressing it so cruelly.

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