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1 Great Expectations summary
Mr. Jackson

2 Chapter 5 Soldiers want Joe to fix handcuffs/Gargery’s distracted about missing pork-pie. Joe and Pip are invited to find convicts. Pip is quietly concerned about the convict They find convicts fighting furiously with each other. Pip’s convict recognizes him, but does not say anything. Convicts are taken to “the hulks”.

3 Chapter 6 Pip feels horrible about not telling Joe
Joe and Pip go home to finish Christmas dinner Joe relays story about convicts and pie missing. Everyone in awe 2 ½ page chapter.

4 Chapter 7 Pip goes to school for an hour every day at Mr. Wopsle's great aunt's house. It's not exactly a rigorous education. Mr. Wopsle's great aunt sleeps through lessons, and then sometimes Mr. Wopsle performs Shakespeare and poetry for the students, with bloody sword and all. At school, Pip encounters Biddy, Mr. Wopsle's great aunt's granddaughter. Biddy is an orphan, just like him.

5 Chapter 7, continued She's a bit unkempt, but man can she run a store. She basically manages Mr. Wopsle's great aunt's grocery store, which happens to be in the schoolroom. One night, Pip is practicing his writing with Joe, and he writes a letter to Joe. Despite the fact that it's functionally illiterate, Joe thinks this is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. Oh, turns out Joe isn't much for reading and writing. Here's why:

6 Chapter 7, continued Joe explains that his father was an alcoholic and beat his mother often. Sometimes he and his mom would run away from his father, but his father always found them and always was convincingly penitent, only to relapse into a state of perpetual drunkenness. Joe was forced to work as a little boy to support his dad's drinking habit, and, thus, never had time for school. In spite of this rough childhood, Joe loves both his father and his mother and was with them until their deaths. This ends Joe's story.

7 Chapter 7, continued After seeing his mother suffer so much, Joe tells Pip he tries to do anything Mrs. Gargery wants and to provide her with anything she needs. He's sorry he can't control her temper or her love of the Tickler, but he sure does love Pip. Joe tells the story of how he insisted on adopting Pip, and Pip starts to cry. So do we. It's super cold outside, and Joe is starting to worry about his wife, who is out visiting Mr. Pumblechook,

8 Chapter 7, continued Suddenly, she arrives proclaiming that Miss Havisham, the Donald Trump of the marshes, has requested that Pip serve as a playmate to her daughter. Pip has to spend the night at Mr. Pumblechook's that very night and will be taken to Miss Havisham's in the morning. Pip is confused. But before he can be too confused, his sister pounces upon him and subjects him to serious deep cleaning and scrubbing before she sends him off into the freezing cold night air. Pip is sad.

9 Chapter 8 Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook's in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store. In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter. To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.

10 Chapter 8, continued Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham's. It's a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There's a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate. That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She's a young girl, and she doesn't let Mr. Pumblechook inside. She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. "Satis" means "enough" in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she's not quite sure.

11 Chapter 8, continued (Too bad she didn't have Shmoop to tell her that it's Latin.) Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life. The little girl is Pip's age, but she calls Pip, "boy." She's also really pretty. This is important.

12 Chapter 8, continued They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages. She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady's dressing room. Someone's in there.

13 Chapter 8, continued It's the weirdest lady he's ever seen in his life. She's old and she's wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren't so old that they were yellowy-brown. Uh, it's also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY. The lady only has one shoe on, and there's a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.

14 Chapter 8, continued The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She's got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white. Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine. Seriously, if we were Pip we'd be so out of there right now.

15 Chapter 8, continued Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that's her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play. Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It's like anti-play. Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he's frozen in his tracks. Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl's name). He does, but he's not happy about it.

16 Chapter 8, continued Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like "Estella" into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you? Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a "common" boy. They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip's butt.

17 Chapter 8, continued (start here 6th hour)
She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling "knaves," "jacks"; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots. Pip doesn't know what to do with himself. He's never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren't mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?

18 Chapter 8, continued Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she's proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker. Oh, also he'd like to go home. NOW. Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.

19 Chapter 8, continued They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside. Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.

20 Chapter 8, continued Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out. He's never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands. But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.

21 Chapter 8, continued He starts to look around the "garden" and it's in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We're thinking that's symbolic.) He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It's like she's following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she's climbing into the sky.

22 Chapter 8, continued Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure. (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the "if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run" policy).

23 Chapter 8, continued But there's nothing there at all. Spooky!
Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming. All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.

24 Chapter 9 The next day, Pip's sister wants to know ALL the juicy details about Miss Havisham and Satis House, but Pip doesn't want to tell her. For one, he doesn't think that anyone would believe his account of the old lady in an old wedding dress, and he also doesn't really want to subject Mrs. Havisham to any public criticism or mockery. For some reason. When Mrs. Joe realizes she's not going to get the goods out of Pip, she pushes his forehead against the wall.

25 Chapter 9, continued Then, Mr. Pumblechook comes over for tea, and, after unsuccessfully getting Pip to recite multiplication tables, he asks Pip for the gossip on Miss Havisham. So Pip lies. He lies that Miss Havisham lives in a black, velvet carriage that sits in her mansion. He lies that he ate cake and wine on gold plates in the carriage. He lies there were huge dogs eating veal-cutlets in silver baskets.

26 Chapter 9, continued And he lies they played with flags. In his story, he, Estella, and Miss Havisham each had different colored flags, and they waved them around out the windows of the coach—which sounds like some bizarre piece of performance art. At that point his well of lies is running dry and he's about to tell them that there was a bear in the cellar or a hot air balloon in the back yard, but the inquisition is over for the moment.

27 Chapter 9, continued Later on, in the forge, Pip confesses to Joe that he made everything up because he's so bummed out about being "common." He wants to be uncommon, see. Joe shows a little folk-wisdom by telling Pip that he won't ever become uncommon if he keeps lying.

28 Chapter 9, continued He also tells Pip that no one can become uncommon without being common first. Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time, he says. Pip goes to bed thinking about all the differences between Joe's house and Miss Havisham's house, and how so much had changed that day. Narrator Pip (that would be the grown up Pip who's telling us this story) interjects to ask us to think about moments in our lives that change our path or direction forever.

29 Chapter 10 Pip gets the notion in his head that he needs some schooling in order to become uncommon. The only problem is that Pip's narcoleptic school teacher, Mr. Wopsle's great aunt, can't teach a thing to anybody, because she's too busy sleeping in her room/grocery store/schoolhouse. Fortunately, Biddy comes to the rescue. Biddy not only agrees to teach Pip everything she knows about reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she also takes on the task of teaching all the children in town.

30 Chapter 10, continued One night after school, Pip stops at the Three Jolly Bargeman pub to collect Joe. He finds Joe, Mr. Wopsle, and a strange man next to the roaring fire, drinking rum and smoking pipes. The strange man looks at Pip through squinty eyes and seems to recognize him. Creepy. Pip decides to sit next to Joe, even though El Weirdo summons him to sit with him.

31 Chapter 10, continued This mystery man is very curious about Pip and about how Pip is related to Joe. Mr. Wopsle is tanked and reciting lines from Shakespeare's play, Richard III. The mystery man keeps rubbing his leg, and, suddenly, he pulls out a file and starts stirring his drink with it. Pip's little heart is atwitter, because he recognizes that file to be the very same file he stole out of Joe's smithy to give to the escaped convict.

32 Chapter 10, continued The mystery man watches Pip the whole time knowingly. As the men get up to leave, the mystery man gives Pip some change wrapped in a piece of paper. Pip is stoked about the money, but still freaked out about Mr. International Man of Mystery. When he unwraps the paper at home, he realizes that the paper is actually money itself—a lot of money.

33 Chapter 10, continued Joe runs back to the pub to return it, but the mystery man is gone, so Mrs. Joe stuffs the money in a tea pot to keep it safe. Pip has wild dreams all night long.

34 Chapter 11 It's Miss Havisham day!
Pip arrives at the gate, and again Estella disdainfully lets him in and guides him down the dark passages. Today, however, he waits in a different room with three ladies and gentleman. These are Miss Havisham's relatives, and they're all just sick with worry about her. They talk dismissively of a one "Matthew Pocket."

35 Chapter 11, continued When they finally notice Pip, they look at him like he were a piece of moldy meat. We're pretty sure we don't like these people. Estella takes Pip up to Miss Havisham's room. He says he doesn't feel like playing, but he's totally down to work.

36 Chapter 11, continued Miss Havisham takes Pip across the hall to another big room. There's a long table with some kind of blob sticking out of the middle of it. Little speckled spiders are running every which way, but mostly into the blob, like there's a spider convention going on inside the blob. There are slower moving beetles chilling by the fireplace, and Pip can hear mice running behind the walls. So, Dickens has basically just described Shmoop's worst nightmare.

37 Chapter 11, continued Miss Havisham tells Pip that this is her wedding feast, and that the blob is her bride-cake. Ew. When she dies, she wants to be laid on that very same table where her beyond-rotting wedding feast lies. Miss Havisham grabs hold of Pip's shoulder and tells him to walk, and so he walks her around and around the room.

38 Chapter 11, continued Pretty soon, Estella and the relatives come traipsing into the room, but Miss Havisham is so not interested in them, even though they spend a lot of time telling her how they're all worried about her (and how dumb they think some guy named Matthew Pocket is). Miss Havisham has had about enough of this, and she bangs her cane on the ground and insists that Matthew Pocket will stand at the head of the table. This shuts the visitors up, and they all head out. Apparently, it's Miss Havisham's birthday, and they visit her every year on her birthday.

39 Chapter 11, continued Estella comes back into the room after having escorted the guests out, and the three of them stand in silence as Miss Havisham imagines her dead body on the table. After some more card-playing, Pip is wandering through the garden and greenhouse looking at all of the deformed, overgrown vegetables when he sees another (totally random) little boy studying. The little boy is very pale and has red eye-lids. After playing twenty questions, the little boy asks Pip to fight. Pip, not wanting to be rude, accepts.

40 Chapter 11, continued The boys find a little protected nook, and the little boy brings over a sponge and bucket of water and vinegar. Pip is a little worried he's gotten in over his head, especially when the little boy starts fancy footing around, balling up his fists and going over the rules. As you can guess, it's not much of a fight. Pip basically knocks the kid out in ten seconds, but it's all very friendly.

41 Chapter 11, continued When Pip heads out, Estella appears out of nowhere, and she's kind of flushed. She tells Pip that he can kiss her on the cheek, and he immediately accepts. It is really dark when Pip finally arrives home, and he can see the glow of Joe's forge fire reflected on the marshes.

42 Chapter 12 Pip is pretty sure that he's either going to be thrown in prison for life or be pummeled to a pulp by a gang of rich kids for having hit (twice) the random, pale little boy in Miss Havisham's garden. But nothing happens! When he returns to Miss Havisham's, Pip visits the scene of the fight. He covers up some dried blood on the pavement with some leaves and calls it a day.

43 Chapter 12, continued Pip starts a new ritual at Satis House—he pushes Miss Havisham in a garden-chair-on-wheels (you know, a wheelchair) around and around her dressing room and wedding feast room. For almost three hours. During one of these indoor adventures, Miss Havisham notices that Pip is tall, and she asks him what he's going to do with his life. He tells her he intends to apprentice with Joe. The ritual continues over the course of many months.

44 Chapter 12, continued Estella remains frosty, and Miss Havisham continues to give her jewels and to coach her in the ways of breaking men's hearts. One day, Miss Havisham tells Pip to bring Joe with him the next time he visits. When Pip relays the message at home, Mrs. Joe is furious that she isn't invited. Her method of coping is to tear up the entire house and subject everything to a deep cleaning, which is at least better than some we can think of.

45 Chapter 13 On the day of the visit, Joe works himself up into a tizzy. He can't decide what to wear, and puts on his finest digs. He pops his collar to seem more gentlemanly, but the poppage just pushes up the hair in the back of his head so that he looks like a bird. Pip wishes Joe would just be himself and wear his normal workday clothes—as though he doesn't understand exactly what Joe is feeling.

46 Chapter 13, continued Mrs. Joe, Joe, and Pip walk into town with Mrs. Joe at the helm. She's wearing a big sun bonnet and is carrying an umbrella and lots of other random items. Pip thinks she's popping her proverbial collar for all the town to see. Mrs. Joe hangs with Mr. Pumblechook during the visit, but she's still ticked off that she's not invited. Estella opens that gate for Pip and Joe, but she doesn't say anything, nor does she look at them. Surprise, surprise.

47 Chapter 13, continued Estella leads the Gargery men down the dark, labyrinthine passages. Joe is a mess. When she asks him a question, he tells Pip the answer instead of answering her directly, and he tries to talk all elegant but just ends up sounding, um, incomprehensible. Pip is MORTIFIED. Finally, Miss Havisham tells Joe that Pip has earned a reward: 25 pounds as an investment in Pip's apprenticeship in the smithy.

48 Chapter 13, continued (Apprentices usually had to pay money to get training, kind of like having to pay for school, except you learn a useful trade. The money covered the apprentice's expenses, like food and rent.) Joe is flabbergasted. That's a LOT of dough. Miss Havisham sends Pip away, and she tells Joe never to expect more money from her than what she's just given. As they leave Satis House, Joe is dumbfounded by the amount of money he's holding, but Pip is crestfallen: he thought that Miss Havisham was going to adopt him or something, and instead he's just lost Estella for good.

49 Chapter 13, continued When they arrive at Mr. Pumblechook, Joe conjures up a story about how Miss Havisham did not feel well enough to entertain a lady such as one Mrs. Joe Gargery, but that she sends her best regards. Total poppycock, but Mrs. Joe eats it up. When Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook learn that Miss Havisham has given a gift of 25 pounds, they go CRAZY.

50 Chapter 13, continued Pip is taken to the court that very day to be sworn in as an official blacksmith's apprentice, thus binding him to the trade for the rest of his days. That night, the whole family celebrates at the Three Jolly Bargemen with a big feast. Everyone but Pip, that is. He's just depressed.

51 Chapter 20 Pip takes a 5-hour carriage ride to London
Carriage driver is afraid of Jaggers as he drops Pip off. Pip has to wait for Jaggers and he is not alone He notices some pretty weird things in the office (chair, faces)

52 Chapter 14 Pip is sad. He hates his home, because it reminds him of how far away he's from the wealth and privilege of Satis House. (Seriously, Pip, we think you're better off.) He feels like a black cloud has settled just above his head, following him wherever he goes and, like a big, heavy curtain, has barred him from continuing on the path toward becoming a gentleman. Sometimes, he looks at the marshes near his house, and he thinks that they're like a metaphor for his own future. They're flat, low, dark, misty, and they lead only to the ocean.

53 Chapter 14, continued Narrator Pip interjects, telling us that his one consolation in life is that he never told Joe how he felt. When Pip is working in the forge at night, he and Joe will often sing "Old Clem," and Pip remembers singing the very same song with Estella and Miss Havisham. Often, he imagines Estella looking in at him from outside of the smithy. How embarrassing!

54 Chapter 15 When Pip has learned about all he can from Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, he begs Biddy to teach him everything she knows. Which she does. Because unlike Estella, Biddy is actually a nice girl/woman. He also tries to teach Joe everything that he learns in a way of helping Joe become more educated, and, thus, more worthy of Pip's company. How nice. Pip and Joe go to the old Battery on the marshes for their lessons on Sundays, but Joe isn't the most attentive student. Pip, too, spends most of his time looking at the sails on the horizon and dreaming of Estella and Satis House.

55 Chapter 15, continued One Sunday, when Pip and Joe are hanging out at the battery, Pip asks Joe if he can take half a day off of work so that he can go visit Miss Havisham. Joe doesn't think this is a good idea. He remembers Miss Havisham's last words warning Joe never to ask for more money than she's already given. Joe is worried that if Pip visits her, she will feel like he's returned to butter her up for more dough. After they go back and forth, Joe finally agrees to give Pip a half day.

56 Chapter 15, continued Pip isn't the only one at the smithy. Joe also employs a burly, gruff looking man named Orlick. Orlick hits things with his hammer in the smithy (wait, isn't the point of a smithy…?) and he's not too friendly. When Orlick catches wind that Pip gets to take half a day off of work, Orlick has a conniption, extolling the inherent injustice of giving only one employee such a privilege. Joe is befuddled, but then decides to give everybody a holiday in order to make everybody happy. Mrs. Joe, however, overhears this ruling and bursts in upon the scene yelling and shouting at Joe for being such a fool as to let his employees walk all over him.

57 Chapter 15, continued She calls Orlick names, so Orlick calls Mrs. Joe names and threatens her with violence. Joe finally has to challenge Orlick to a fight to satisfy Mrs. Joe's notions of honor, and he knocks Orlick down faster than you can say "smithy." We're guessing that the village blacksmith would win most fights. Mrs. Joe faints, and Orlick slouches away with a bloody nose. When Pip arrives at Miss Havisham's, Sarah Pocket almost refuses to let him in.

58 Chapter 15, continued Miss Havisham tells him she won't give any more money, but Pip assures her he's just come to say hi and thanks. Miss Havisham catches Pip looking around the room for signs of Estella. Oh, ho ho! Sorry, dude. Estella is in France learning to be a beautiful, educated woman way out of his reach. As Pip is ejected onto the street, he feels even worse than he did before. We could have called that one, Pip. He walks around the main street of town, looking at all of the shop windows and thinking about what he'd buy for himself if he were a gentleman.

59 Chapter 15, continued Pip runs into Mr. Wopsle, who has just come out of the bookstore with a copy of The Tragedy of George Barnwell, a play. He invites Pip to come over to Mr. Pumblechook's house to read the play aloud. Fun times! Under normal circumstances, Pip would never, ever hang out with Pumblechook, but since he's feeling so sad, he decides to accept the invitation. The play reading doesn't end until 9:30 at night. He and Mr. Wopsle walk home together, and on their way they find Orlick crouching on the side of the road. It's a really misty night, so they can't tell what he's doing.

60 Chapter 15, continued Something seems off about the guy, but he tells them that convicts have escaped from the prison ships, and that the prison ships are firing cannons to warn the local area. The three men walk past the Three Jolly Bargemen, where there's mass chaos going on because of something that's happened at Pip's house. And that something is Pip's sister lying unconscious in the kitchen, hit hard on the back of her head.

61 Chapter 16 There's a general consensus that one of the escaped convicts is to blame, since there's a convict's leg iron found at the scene of the crime. But it's weird. The attacker struck Mrs. Joe from the back and didn't take anything in the house. And it gets weirder: a prison ship guard says that the leg-iron wouldn't have been worn by a recent convict, since it's totally last year's model. Pip suspects either Orlick or the mysterious man who gave him the two one-pound notes.

62 Chapter 16, continued Sure, Orlick has the alibi of being out and about around town, but there was the little matter of him hiding out by the road. Plus, if the mysterious man were to have asked Mrs. Joe for his money, she would have given to him, since she tried to give it to him in the first place. In any case, the leg-iron is the one that his convict severed and left on the marshes those many years before. Pip feels REALLY guilty, like an accessory to his sister's assault.

63 Chapter 16, continued Mrs. Joe has lost her hearing and can hardly see, and she can't move or talk without great difficulty. The family gives her a chalk board, but they have a hard time figuring out what she writes/draws. Fortunately, Biddy comes to live with the Gargerys, and she understands Mrs. Joe really well. One day, Mrs. Joe draws a picture of a hammer, and Biddy eventually realizes that she's asking for Orlick. Orlick is brought to Mrs. Joe, and she's just delighted to see him. Orlick feels super awkward about the whole thing, but she asks for him every day.

64 Chapter 17 Pip gets used to his blacksmith lifestyle, even if he's still a little mopey. He also starts to notice that Biddy is all grown up with fancy hair-dos and high heels and pretty eyes. One day, Pip is studying in the kitchen while Biddy sews near him, listening to him read aloud. She seems to be sponging up everything that he learns himself, all while taking care of daily domestic tasks, errands, and chores. Basically, we kind of wish we were reading more about her and less about Pip's whininess.

65 Chapter 17, continued Pip begins to think that Biddy must just be the perfect person to confide in, to express all of his melancholy emotions, as well as his hopes and dreams. (What, you say Biddy might have had hopes and dreams of her own?) On Sunday, the two of them take a summer stroll on the marshes. It's a beautiful day, but Pip finally confesses his deepest secret to Biddy: he wants to be a gentleman more than anything in the world. Uh, says Biddy, maybe you shouldn't spend your time wishing for something you won't ever have.

66 Chapter 17, continued No way. Someone once told him that he was common, and that comment has been haunting him ever since. Biddy tells him that the comment was neither polite nor true. She asks Pip who made the comment, and Pip tells her the most beautiful lady in the whole wide world said so, and he l-o-v-e-s her. Very gently, Biddy points out that probably the best thing to do is just ignore her, since she's not worthy of him anyway, but Pip ignores this excellent advice.

67 Chapter 17, continued Instead, he repays her by saying that he wishes he could make himself fall in love with her, because, if that were the case, everything would be okay for him. He's a real charmer, that Pip. Suddenly, Orlick shows up out of the graveyard and menaces them a little. Biddy tells Pip that she doesn't like Orlick. She tells him that Orlick likes her and flirts with her mercilessly, against her will.

68 Chapter 17, continued Ooh, Pip doesn't trust that guy.
Pip realizes that he's starting to get used to the whole blacksmith thing, especially now that his sister is incapacitated. He begins to imagine himself living with Joe for the rest of his life and eventually marrying Biddy. And then everything changes.

69 Chapter 18 Pip has been apprenticing for four years when, one Saturday night at the Three Jolly Bargemen, something happens. Pip and the boys are sitting around the fire listening to Mr. Wopsle give a dramatic reading about a recent murder when a mysterious man butts in and asks the group who they believe to be the murderer. After some very lawyerly cross-examination, the man says that he wants to speak with a blacksmith named Joe Gargery and his apprentice, Pip. Whaaaa?

70 Chapter 18, continued Pip, Joe, and the strange man walk home, where we find out that Mr. Mystery #2 is Mr. Jaggers, a London lawyer, who has come to tell Pip about his "great expectations." He's about to inherit a huge fortune and will be made into a London gentleman. !!! Mr. Jaggers offers Joe money to compensate for losing an apprentice, but he refuses—and he's not too happy about being offered it, either.

71 Chapter 18, continued Pip's benefactor will remain unknown to him until he/she chooses to reveal himself/herself, but in the meantime, Pip needs an education. How about Mr. Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham's estranged relative, as a potential tutor? Pip accepts. Pip and Joe are speechless throughout this entire encounter.

72 Chapter 18, continued Mr. Jaggers gives Pip twenty pounds to buy new clothes, offers Joe money again, gets rejected—quite violently—again, and then heads off. Everyone is kind of blown away by this whole thing, but they try to be happy for Pip. In bed, he overhears Joe and Biddy saying nice things about him, and, for some reason, he's lonelier than he's ever been before in his entire life.

73 Chapter 19 Pip feels better in the morning. He can't wait to get to London—and then come home and show off his new fancy gentlemanly self to the village. In a moving moment, Pip tells Joe he'll never forget him, but it feels a little contrived and insincere. Things go downhill, when Pip and Biddy get in a fight after Pip asks Biddy to teach Joe everything she knows so that he might be worthy of his society.

74 Chapter 19, continued Biddy tells Pip Joe is proud and that he might not want to be improved. You're just jealous, Pip says, and how Biddy keeps from slapping him we do not know.

75 Chapter 19, continued Pip gets himself all dressed up and decked out, and then visits Miss Havisham who already knows his situation. (Pip obviously thinks that this mysterious benefactor is Miss Havisham.) She flaunts him in front of Sarah Pocket to heat her jealousy. That night, Pip has wild anxiety dreams, but he holds it together until he's in the carriage—and then he starts crying. Hard.

76 Chapter 20 It's a five hour carriage ride to London, and when Pip arrives in the big city, the country boy thinks that London is decidedly overrated. Everything is dirty, labyrinthine, and abrasive. The carriage driver delivers Pip to Jaggers' office, but not without mentioning how afraid he is of Jaggers. This perplexes Pip, but it also means that he doesn't have to tip the driver, since the driver is afraid of what Jaggers might do if he overcharges.

77 Chapter 20, continued Pip is greeted by a clerk who lets him know that Mr. Jaggers is in court, but that Pip can wait inside. There are lots of people around, all waiting for Mr. Jaggers. Pip waits in Mr. Jaggers' office, which is full of such delightful things as Mr. Jaggers' chair, which look likes a coffin, and two casts of gruesome, twitchy faces.

78 Chapter 21 Wemmick (clerk) is described at some length
Guides Pip to Barnard’s Inn. It is pretty filthy. Pip’s roommate is out (Pocket, Jr.) Mr. Pocket, Jr., is a pretty cool guy. He even brings some strawberries for Pip and also promises to give him a tour of the city. They realize that they have met before: anyone know where?

79 Chapter 22 Herbert (Mr. Pocket, Jr.) and Pip talk for quite awhile
Herbert remembers that HE punched Pip out. Pip does not correct him. Herbert was brought in to be Estella’s playmate, but it did not work out. Estella apparently was bred to make men miserable. Herbert’s dad is going to be their tutor. Pip gets along with Herbert really well.

80 22, continued They have dinner, and Pip learns about Miss Havisham.
She was a rich kid When dad died, she divided inheritance with ½ brother (Arthur) She fell in love with a bad guy who convinced her to buy out her ½ brother. He left her at the altar and humiliated her. It was all planned by Arthur and the bad guy. Pip asks a few more questions about Estella

81 22, continued Herbert shares that he is a “capitalist” and insures ships Pip loves how London looks, in spite of how dirty it is. They go to visit their tutor’s house It is a pretty chaotic scene with the family.

82 Chapter 23 The servants run things at the Pocket house.
Mrs. Pocket is pretty much a fake Pip meets two other students (Drummle and Startop). It is an interesting time at the Pockets. Bizarre. Mr. Pocket is pretty much going crazy with everything going on.

83 Chapter 24 Pip and Mr. Pocket discuss what he should be learning.
Mr. Pocket is basically a good guy. Pip goes to the office to get money to buy furniture (20 pounds). Wemmick gives an extended tour of the office and explains the casts (executed criminals). Wemmick likes “portable property”—stuff you can sell quickly if need be. They see Jaggers in action at court—scary.

84 Chapter 25 Where does Pip go to dinner?
Is he impressed by where he goes to dinner? What are some interesting details about where he goes to dinner? Who is the Aged? Do they have a great time at “the castle”?

85 Chapter 26 Where else do the boys dine?
Does Jaggers bring out the best or the worst in people? What does Pip accuse Drummle of? Who does Jaggers tell Pip to avoid? Who is Molly? What is she like? What does she have on her hands and arms?

86 Chapter 27 Who does Pip receive a letter from about Joe?
What does the letter say? Why is Pip unhappy to see his visitor? Who does the visitor say wants to see Pip? Why is Pip sad and depressed at the end of the chapter?

87 Chapter 28 Where does Pip decide to go at the beginning of the chapter? Who does Pip sit in front of on the carriage ride? Why does Pip exit the carriage before his stop? Where does Pip end up? Who does everyone there associate with Pip?

88 Chapter 29 Why does Pip think that Miss Havisham invited him back?
Who is the gatekeeper at Miss Havisham’s? What does Estella tell Pip that she lacks? What does Miss Havisham command that Pip do (over and over)? Does Pip think that his chances of marrying Estella are good at the end of the chapter? Why or why not?

89 Chapter 30 What does Pip tell Jaggers about Orlick?
Who mocks Pip on his way out of town? What does Pip tell Herbert about Estella? What does Herbert tell Pip about his future with Estella? Who does Herbert plan to Marry?

90 Chapter 31 and 32 questions What leisure activity do Pip and Herbert attend at the beginning of Chapter 31? The Theatre Who do they see in the activity? Walpole Does Pip have good or bad dreams that night? Bad—he proposes to Clara, has to play Hamlet, and Miss Havisham makes an appearance.

91 Chapter 31 and 32 questions Who is coming to town to visit Pip, and how does Pip feel about it? Estella—great How does Pip react to visiting Newgate Prison? Bad--dirty

92 Type I Writing 10 lines minimum 5 minutes 5 points possible
Prompt: If you were Pip, how would you convince Estella that she should eventually marry you? Pick at least three pieces of evidence that you would use.

93 Chapter 33 Pip takes Estella to Richmond (the nice one)
He is in l-o-v-e. Over tea, Estella says that the Pockets are spreading lies about him to Miss Havisham. Pip kisses her hand, then her cheek—she does not respond. Estella invites Pip to visit at appropriate intervals. Back at the Pocket household, things are dysfunctional.

94 34 Pip can’t stop obsessing over Estella.
Kind of wishes for old life back. Accumulates a lot of debt. They go to Society of Men that Bentley Drummle is part of. Pocket and Pip try to figure out their debt. Mrs. Joe dies.

95 35 Pip is highly upset over his sister dying
He didn’t like her, but he loved her. Pumblechook acts inappropriately at funeral. Joe and Pip have a talk. Biddy and Pip have a talk—she will be a teacher. Orlick has been harassing Biddy.

96 36 Pip turns 21—spending much $.
Jaggers tells Pip that he will now receive 500 lbs. per year (about $60,000/year in today’s money—possibly up to $100,000/year.) Pip is curious about his benefactor—told to be patient). Wemmick advises Pip not to lend money to anyone.

97 37 Pip visits Wemmick’s house The Aged and Pip hang out.
Wemmick arrives and has a woman with him. Pip wants to loan money to Herbert with him knowing it. Wemmick tries to put the moves on Miss Skiffins, but to no avail. Things with Pip are going to happen soon…

98 38 Pip has been visiting Estella Estella has a lot of guys after her
She is a tease. Estella and Pip visit Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is acting more and more erratic. Estella and her argue. Pip stays at Satis House/sees that Miss Havisham can’t sleep either.

99 38 Meanwhile, Drummle brags that he and Estella are “an item”.
Pip is upset about this. Later, Pip and Estella are at the same party and she says that she is purposely trying not to deceive him—unlike the other guys. It appears to Pip that he has lost her.

100 39 Pip is now 23 One night, the Convict from ch. 1 shows up at his apartment and gives him a big hug. He has been in Australia as a sheep farmer He is THE Benefactor. Pip has inspired him—the convict was trying to create a gentleman in Pip.

101 39 Pip is upset because he relizes that Miss Havisham’s dreams don’t match his own (or Estella’s). Feels horrible about abandoning Joe and a little paranoid. This ends the second stage of Pip’s expectations.

102 Chapter 40 Pip is unsure what do about the convict
Decides to tell his house maids that the convict is his uncle. Pip steps on a person in the stairwell, but the person will not respond. He disappears We learn that the convict’s name is Magwitch, but he also is known as Provis. Magwitch tells Pip that he will be killed if he is caught, but vows never to leave Pip’s side.

103 40, continued Pip asks Jaggers about all this, and Jaggers does confirm that Magwitch is his benefactor (reluctantly). Jaggers warns Pip to careful around Magwitch. Pip buys Magwitch some new clothes, but it does not really help his appearance. Pip thinks about joining the army and heading to India. Herbert finally arrives home.

104 Chapter 41 Herbert meets Magwitch
Herbert and Pip figure out a way to move Magwitch to a different apartment Pip decides that he can not continue to take money from Magwitch Herbert convinces Pip that Pip should leave the country with Magwitch Magwitch decides to tell his life story, but first he says that he has made everything right in his life.

105 Chapter 42 Magwitch has spent much of his life in jail.
He had a similar upbringing as Pip, and even taught himself to read and write. 20+years ago, Magwitch met a guy named Compeyson, and they started to commit crimes together. Compeyson was mainly a forger, and previously had worked with someone named Arthur. Together, they had swindled a rich woman out of some money.

106 42, continued Magwitch also talks about having a girlfriend, but he stops short on this topic. Compeyson and Magwitch get caught swindling, and eventually they get convicted. Compeyson gets lesser sentence because he is a “gentleman”. Magwitch attacks Compeyson on the prison ship and eventually gets sent to “the hole”, where he escapes to the marshes/meets Pip. Herbert reveals to Pip that Arthur related to Miss Havisham, and Compeyson was the guy who jilted her.

107 Chapter 43 Pip is in shock about this situation. His fortune is ill-gotten, and he feels very distanced from Estella. Pips is concerned about Compeyson finding them. Pip tries to find Estella in Richmond, but she is at Satis House. Something is wrong. Herbert and Pip figure out that Magwitch might go along with a “vacation” out of England.

108 43, cont. Pip heads to Satis House.
Drummle is at the Blue Boar and Pip happens to be there, too. The conversation makes Pip mad. Drummle evidently is going to meet with Estella there later. Pip thinks he sees Orlick with Drummle as he heads to Satis House.

109 Chapter 44 Pips arrives to see MH and Estella together.
After some conversation about benefactors, etc., Pip scolds MH for her behavior. MH gets pretty angry. Pip proclaims his love for Estella. Estella does not really react

110 44, cont. Pip tries to explain MH’s intentions to Estella—this gets to MH emotionally. Estella reveals that she is marrying Drummle. Pip begs her not to, but Estella says that it is a done deal. Pip has a lengthy proclamation of love to her. Hall of Fame worthy. Pip walks all the way back to London and receives a note at London Bridge that says: “DON’T GO HOME.”

111 Chapter 45 Pip stays at a cheap lodging house.
The note was from Wemmick, so he visits him at “the castle”. It turns out that Pip’s apartment is under surveillance from the authorities Magwitch was moved to Clara’s house Wemmick says that Compeyson is back in town, presumably looking for the Magwitch.

112 Chapter 46 Pip has problems finding Clara’s apartment; Clara’s dad is not nice (alcoholic). Clara is very pretty and Herbert and her definitely go together. Pip and Magwitch have a nice conversation; Magwitch calls himself Mr. Campbell. Pip and Herbert come up with a plan on the water to rescue Magwitch; involves rowing. Pip thinks that he is being watched.

113 Chapter 47 They wait, and Pip is having money problems; Pip wonders whether Estella got married. Pip rows and waits. Pip goes to the theatre and Wopsle freaks out. Wopsle says that he saw the man who fought with the convict years earlier sitting behind Pip. Pip becomes even more cautious.

114 Chapter 48 Pip is depressed; gets invite from Miss Havisham to come visit. Jaggers tells Pip that Estella is married to Drummle and that she is likely to get abused. Pip notices that Molly has many of the same mannerisms as Estella. Molly was one of Jaggers’s clients who was accused of murdering an older woman. Molly’s “dead” child was a girl.

115 Chapter 49 Pip visits Miss Havisham; he asks for money to finance Herbert. MH begs Pip to forgive her. He agrees if she can heal Estella’s heart. Pip takes a walk, but decides to check on MH once again. Her dress has caught on fire, so Pip tackles her and stamps out the fire with table cloths, etc. Critters are running about everywhere (bugs) Pip’s arms are burned, but MH survives (barely).

116 Chapter 50 Pip’s left arm is burned badly/right arm affected, too.
Herbert helps Pip to heal Pip relays Magwitch’s story: Married to a crazy woman who killed another woman Also threatened to kill their own little girl Magwitch was afraid of going to jail for causing girl’s death. Compeyson knew story and used it to blackmail Magwitch.

117 51 Pip wants to prove who Estella’s parents are
Pip wants $ from Jaggers Pip tells Jaggers Magwitch is Estella’s father Jaggers says (reluctantly) that won Molly’s case when she was accused of murder. Jaggers saved Estella by sending her to Havisham. Molly told her husband that she had killed child. Jaggers swears all to secrecy.

118 52 Herbert will be leaving for Mid-east soon
Wemmick sends message to escape next week. They have to include Startop because of Pip’s arm. Pip gets another note to meet in the marshes Pip goes to marches. Pumblechook betrays Pip with his gossip. Pip goes to meet mystery person

119 53 Pip goes into small shack in marshes
Someone puts noose around his neck Pip is ties to post The mystery man is Orlick (surprise!) He confesses to killing Mrs. Joe, but claims that it is really Pip’s fault. Orlick is working with Compeyson (Orlick was the body on the stairs before) Herbert, Startop and Trabb’s boy come and save the day (Herbert found note on the floor)

120 54 Today’s the day They pick up Magwitch at Clara’s
They all stay overnight on the way to ship Strange people are around Boat follows them in the morning (it’s Compeyson!) Magwitch leaps at Compeyson and they both go in the water. Compesyon does re-surface –Magwitch is horribly wounded

121 55 Magwitch is in prison but no trial yet (can’t confirm identity)
Jaggers won’t take Magwitch case (it is a loser) Pip’s fortune goes to government Magwitch tries to give $ to Pip through Jaggers Herbert is leaving/offers Pip job as clerk Wemmick and Miss Skiffins get married.

122 56 Magwitch is really, really sick (lung punctured)
Pip supports (literally) Magwitch during trial Magwitch sentenced to death Pip tells Magwitch that his daughter is alive—and that Pip loves her Magwitch dies peacefully before he can be exectuted. Pip is crushed.

123 57 Pip is in debt and gets really sick Debtors come to arrest him
Joe comes to the rescue—he has learned to write and read Miss Havisham dies and gives her wealth up appropriately Orlick arrested for assaulting Pumblechook Joe apologizes to Pip for not protecting him better Joe pays off all of Pip’s debt Pip plans to propose to Biddy and work at Joe’s forge.

124 58 Pip goes home and visits Satis House—it will soon be subdivided.
Pumblechook scolds Pip Biddy marries Joe Pip leaves to go “east” where he becomes partners with Herbert. They do ok financially.

125 59 Pip does not see Biddy or Joe for eleven years.
Pip meets nephew on a visit Two endings (Hollywood first) Pip goes to site of Satis House (it is demolished) He sees Estella there (she is attractive, but sad) Estella explains that land belongs to her and she is finally selling it. They both admit they think about each other all the time. She wants to be friends when they are apart. Pip knows that they will be together forever.

126 59 (alternate ending) Estella remarries to a doctor
She sees Pip with his nephew and assumes that it is his child. She fears that she blew her chance. They part forever. This the end….


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