Question

Joe tells Pip's convict about the stolen food:

"God knows you're welcome to it—so far as it was ever mine," returned Joe, with a saving remembrance of Mrs. Joe. "We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature.—Would us, Pip?"
What does Dickens want to reveal about Joe's character with this statement?

A. Joe doesn't mind the stolen pie because it was really Mrs. Joe's.
B. Joe is worried that the convict will be punished too harshly.
C. Joe is a man of integrity.
D. Joe doesn't believe the convict stole the pie—he suspects Pip.

Answer 1

C. Joe shows integrity by allowing the person who needed the food to keep it.

Answer 2

The option is C. Joe is a man of integrity.

When he states

…”We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature…”

He is feeling that perhaps the convict stole the food for a reason. Obviously he was hungry. The fact that the pie belonged to Mrs Joe, gives certain excuse and allows Joe to diminish the negative effect of the food being stolen, which provides the idea of Joe´s integrity as a human being.