Great Expectations
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

Clara Barley

Character Analysis

Clara is Herbert’s Pockets love and fiancée. She lives at Mill Brook Pond at a boarding house with her irascible, alcoholic father (a retired ship’s purser) who she tends to on hand and foot. Pip thinks she looks like a fairy. When Clara’s father dies, she marries Herbert, and he takes her to Cairo where they live with Pip.

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