How would you describe the Pocket's household? How is Mrs. Pocket characterized?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In Chapter XXIII of Great
Expectations, Pip describes the household of the
Pockets:

Both
Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in someone else's hands that I
wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there until I found
this unknown power to be the
servants.

With characteristic
comic-irony,Dickens employs a double narrative to describe the Pocket household. For
instance, upon arriving at the Pockets' home, Pip notices that the children "were not
growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up."  For, whenever the seven children
come near Mrs. Pocket who merely sits with the appearance of reading, they tumble over
her skirts because she rests her feet on a footstool.  When the servant, Flopson,
finally trips, Mrs. Pocket orders the children to take a nap, so Pip decides the
children are not only "tumbling up," but "lying
down."

After the servants Miller and Flopson take charge of
the children, Mr. Pocket appears with a perplexed expression and hair in disarray.  At
times he becomes so frustrated that he seems to "lift himself up" by his own hair.  This
frustration comes from Mrs. Pocket's refusal to assume any responsibility for the
raising of the children.  For, she has descended from some "quite accidental deceased
knight," and she has been brought up as

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one who was to be guarded from the acquisition of
plebian domestic
knowledge.

Here, again, is
Dickens mockery of the frivolous aristocrats who are unable to perform natural duties
as Pip, in his comic disparagement of Mrs. Pocket, remarks that the best part of the
house for one to have boarded would have been the kitchen where the servants
congregate.  In an imaginative passage, Pip illustrates just how incompetent Mrs. Pocket
really is.

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...before I had been there a week, a
neighbouring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say
that she had seen Millers slapping the baby.  This greatly distressed Mrs. Pocket, who
burst into tears on receiving the note and said that it was an extraordinary thing that
the neighbours couldn't mind their own
business.

And, even though
Mr. Pocket has been educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he is incapable of making Mrs.
Pocket understand her incompetence at mothering.  For, when he chastises her for paying
no attention to the baby's choking on nuts, telling her that the daughter Jane only
interfered for the sake of the child, Mrs. Pocket insists that she will not be exposed
"to the affront of interference."  Then, when she exclaims, "I hope I know my poor
grandpapa's position.  Jane, indeed!"  Mr. Pocket gives up, and in "desolate
desperation" lifts his hair again and "exclaims helplessly to the
elements."

From Pip's visit to the Pocket household it is
evident that no one but the servants have any control over the children; Mrs. Pocket who
reads about titles is only interested in advancing herself while the erudite Mr.
Pocket is inept at communicating with his wife and in raising his
children.