How, from a jolly, affectionate person she had become a harridan , constantly nagging at him to improve himself.

她是怎样地从一个快活，充满柔情女人变成一个凶妇，没完没了地他抱怨，催他改境遇，。

This novel was writen in his later lifePip, a boy of the marshes, is being "raised by hand" by his shrieking harridan of an older sister and her seemingly doltish husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.

本书介绍了匹普是个穷苦乡下孤儿，由泼辣姐姐和诚实厚道姐夫，铁匠乔抚养大。