"A Dickens character hits you first on the nose and then in the waistcoat, and then in the eye and then in the waistcoat again [...] The scene in which Trabb's boy continually overtakes Pip in order to reel and stagger as at a first encounter is a thing quite within the real competence of such a character [...] The point with Dickens is that there is a rush in the boy's rushings; the writer and the reader rush with him. They start with him, they stare with him, they stagger with him [...] Trabb's boy is among other things a boy; he has a physical rapture [joy] in hurling himself like a boomerang and in bouncing to the sky like a ball. [...] It is life; it is the joy of life felt by those who have nothing else but life. It is the thing that all aristocrats have always hated and dreaded in the people. And it is the thing which poor Pip really hates and dreads in Trabb's boy."
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