Startop
Startop is a loyal friend of Pip who is also tutored by Mr Matthew Pocket. He is an intelligent and kind young man who eventually assists Pip and Herbert in their scheme for Magwitch’s escape demonstrating loyalty and friendship.
Mr Wopsle
Mr Wopsle is the church clerk in Pip’s village who moves to London in pursuit of becoming an actor. This provides an ironic similarity between Wopsle’s elaborate caricature-like performances of characters in a play and Pip’s superficial façade of becoming a gentleman.
Mr Wopsle’s great-aunt
She is the incompetent and slothful teacher at the village evening school which Pip attends in his youth. Her lazy manner of educating differs greatly to the upper-class education of social etiquette and bourgeois ideals that Pip receives in his hierarchical ascent.
Matthew Pocket
Matthew Pocket, also referred to as Mr Pocket, is Herbert’s father, Miss Havisham’s cousin, and Pip’s tutor. He is an intelligent man yet is incompetent in controlling his home life with his wife and many children. Throughout the narrative he is kind to Pip and Pip repays this kindness by commending Matthew Pocket’s support to Miss Havisham, resulting in her leaving a sum of money to him in her will.
Mrs Pocket
Mrs Pocket is Herbert’s mother and embodies the typical figure of a bourgeoise wife. She ignores her maternal duties, allowing her servants to run the household and raise her children whilst she spends her time dwelling on her distant noble lineage and thinking about the prestige of upper-class society life.
Molly
Molly is a reformed criminal who becomes Mr Jaggers’ housekeeper and is eventually revealed to be Estella’s biological mother. Through the revelation of Molly being Estella’s mother (and Magwitch being her father), Dickens uproots Pip’s simplistic understanding of social class, challenging his acquired, rgid bourgeoisie perceptions that being born of low origins is shameful and implies a sense of impurity.
Arthur Havisham
Arthur is Miss Havisham’s resentful half-brother who became a partner to Compeyson, contributing to the scheme that betrayed her on her wedding day.
