Minor Characters
Herbert Pocket (a.k.a. the pale young gentleman)
Pip's best friend, Herbert is compassionate, honest, and unpretentious. He and Pip live together in London where he works in a counting house, then as a merchant. He cheerfully helps Pip through all of Pip's struggles. Pip secretly invests in Herbert's career to help Herbert succeed as a merchant.
Mr. Jaggers
A famous lawyer in London, Mr. Jaggers is Pip's guardian and the middleman between him and his patron. Mr. Jaggers also works for Miss Havisham. He is rational, sharp-minded, and intimidating. He prides himself on neither expressing nor responding to human emotion.
Mr. Pumblechook (a.k.a. Uncle Pumblechook)
A corn and seed merchant and Joe's uncle, Mr. Pumblechook is superficial, calculating, and false. He takes undue credit for parenting Pip.
Orlick
Originally Joe's journeyman, Orlick is devious and violently vengeful. He resents Pip, whom he blames for all of his problems.
Bentley Drummle
Bentley Drummle studies with Pip. He is a wealthy heir to a baronetcy, upper class according to the old system of inherited rank. Described as "idle, proud…and suspicious," Drummle is Pip's nemesis. He pursues Estella.
Startop
Startop studies with Pip. Though spoiled by an overprotective mother, Startop is a good-natured and helpful friend.
Matthew Pocket
Miss Havisham's cousin, Herbert's father, and Pip's tutor, Matthew Pocket is honorable, upstanding, and kind.
Mrs. Pocket
Mr. Pocket's helpless, title-obsessed wife and a disastrous mother.
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt
The incompetent teacher at the village evening school.
Mr. Wopsle
The village church clerk who moves to London to be an actor.
Mr. Trabb
The toady village tailor.
Trabb's Boy
Mr. Trabb's mischievous assistant.
Millers, Flopson and Sophia
Mr. and Mrs. Pockets' harried maids who run the Pockets' household to their own advantage.
Jane Pocket
Mr. and Mrs. Pockets' daughter.
Molly
Mr. Jaggers' maid whom Wemmick describes as "a wild beast tamed."
Arthur Havisham
Miss Havisham's resentful half-brother and Compeyson's partner.
Sarah Pocket, Camilla, Georgiana, and Raymond
Miss Havisham's selfish relatives.
The Aged
Wemmick's jolly, nearly deaf father.
Miss Skiffins
The handsome, good-natured woman Wemmick courts and eventually marries.
The Avenger
Pip's servant.
Bill Barley
Clara's ogre-like father.
Pip (II)
Joe and Biddy's son.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubble
The village wheelwright and wife.
Mrs. Coiler
Mr. and Mrs. Pockets' neighbor.
Mrs. Whimple
Clara's landlady.