All 6 Uses of
wretch
in
Great Expectations
- Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
Chpt 11 *wretch = a person of bad character
- If I had often thought before, with something allied to shame, of my companionship with the fugitive whom I had once seen limping among those graves, what were my thoughts on this Sunday, when the place recalled the wretch, ragged and shivering, with his felon iron and badge!†
Chpt 19
- On the other hand, Trabb's boy might worm himself into his intimacy and tell him things; or, reckless and desperate wretch as I knew he could be, might hoot him in the High Street, My patroness, too, might hear of him, and not approve.†
Chpt 28
- It has almost made me mad to sit here of a night and see him before me, so bound up with my fortunes and misfortunes, and yet so unknown to me, except as the miserable wretch who terrified me two days in my childhood!†
Chpt 41
- "When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman Compeyson looked, wi' his curly hair and his black clothes and his white pocket-handkercher, and what a common sort of a wretch I looked.†
Chpt 42
- And so quick were my thoughts, that I saw myself despised by unborn generations,— Estella's children, and their children,—while the wretch's words were yet on his lips.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
-
(wretch) someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character