The job requires a demanding, uncaring attitude, a personality the working Wemmick takes on.

[4] His professional attitude contrasts with Wemmick's more outwardly pleasant home and personal life.

When Wemmick talks to a prisoner that has been condemned to die, he does his best to take whatever valuable artefacts they may have with them off their hands.

Wemmick owns a house in Walworth which is modelled as a castle, complete with a drawbridge, cannon, and moat.

Every evening at 9 PM Wemmick fires a cannon known as "The Stinger", which is the only object the Aged Parent has the ability to hear.

In his personal life Wemmick, for the first time, also reveals a "sexuality which Dickens comically depicts in his relationship with the brightly apparelled but wooden Miss Skiffins."