Uncle Yule has a vivid image. He is a greedy, cunning and hypocritical businessman.
In the novel, he used family fraud to disguise himself as a rich man in an attempt to seek family property.
His hypocritical mask was exposed when he met his family on the boat, revealing his true colors.
The image of Uncle Yule reflects the ugliness and hypocrisy of human nature in capitalist society in the19th century.