Dickens seems to develop such compelling characters that the reader needs to know what happens next… When we first meet Magwich he seems to be a villain and a convict manipulative, who bullies a naive boy called Pip for the basic food he lacks, shortly after Pip meets him again but your opinion of Magwich changes completely, he defends Pip from the stealing actions he forced him into to bully. He then goes unthought for some time in the book until he appears again after Pip's transformation from a young lower class boy to a gentleman. The fact that he is the reason for Pip's transformation shows him as the hero, but he is still wanted for crime. Magwich from the first time we meet him is described in great detail by the shy Pip who is not described in much detail throughout, almost as if his identity is left up to the reader to decide. Magwich is described as...“a fearful man, all grey, with a large iron on his leg. A man without a hat, with broken shoes and with an old rag tied around his head." The fact that he does not wear a hat in Victorian times was considered rude, however he wears a rag showing that he is dignified and polite but “old rag” suggests that he is poor and lower class. The setting in which Magwich first appears is at the "cemetery", there seems to be an air of death, a stark and dark setting. The setting seems described too thoroughly, as if it were important to the story; the setting seems to mirror Magwich, dark, stark, lonely and isolated. This seems to represent his life and his abandonment. While for Pip the same environment is a peaceful place to remember his late mother and father, he is apparently now left with this older sister who treats him and her blacksmith husband, Joe, terribly. this when we first meet Miss Havisham in chapter 8 she is also described with a long description. Its appearance is described as skeletal and decaying. She's trapped in a time warp of her own volition, living in a neglected house in the same room at the exact same time her competent future husband left her, the misfortune of her neglect has left her bitter and seemingly slightly twisted to For example, he wants Pip and Estella to “play”.”.