Pip’s illness marks his lowest point since he also lost his well-known reputation, status, and wealth. However, unlike the abusive mothers, Dickins does not give Pip the death penalty, but a chance to be reborn. At the peak of his illness, Joe comes back to Pip and nurses him back to health. Pip becomes “like a child in [Joe’s] hands” (Ch. LVII) with Joe is caring for him in an equally respective manner we come to expect from a parent. Other like to think that Joe, and Biddy, after they are married, are Pip’s best parental surrogates towards the end of the book. In Jay Dessner Lawrence’s work “Great Expectations: "the Ghost of a Man's Own Father"” he states that “Pip is reborn as their child… exist[ing] again, as a young boy. With loving and