g herself with haste and excitement, and throwing her bonnet back on her shoulders where it hung by the strings: 'if this boy an't grateful this night, he never will be!" (p. 81.)
Mrs. Joe, nevertheless, in comparison to Joe, is far more greedy and is a harder person as a result of that greed. For example, when the "strange man" gives Pip some money, Joe mentions it to Pip's sister. Mrs. Joe, overhearing, responds triumphantly:
'A bad un, I'll be bound, or he wouldn't have given it to the boy! Let's look at it.' It took it out of the paper, and it proved to be a good one. 'But what's this?' said Mrs. Joe, throwing down the shilling and catching up the paper. 'Two One-Pound notes?' (p. 107)
Mrs. Joe spends a lot of energy being mean that s
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