GREAT EXPECTATIONSPhase 2 Review – Part 2

CH 31 (THIS CHAPTER DOESN’T EXIST IN THE ABRIDGED)

Herbert and Pip go to see Mr. Wopsle perform in Hamlet - turns out to be a horrible piece of theater, but humorous at the same time

They invite Wopsle home for dinner and listen to him rave about his performance

CHAPTER 32 (CHAPTER 28 - ABRIDGED) Pip receives a letter from Estella stating

that she is coming to London She asks if Pip will meet her at her carriage

CHAPTER 32 (CH 28 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) While waiting for Estella, Pip meets

Wemmick who is on his way to Newgate prison to conduct some business The prisoners are warm and friendly to

Wemmick - they even offer to send him presents before their executions

CHAPTER 32 (CH 28 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) As Pip returns to meet Estella, he wonders

why/how situations involving prisoners have always found their way into his life He feels his visit to Newgate Prison has stained

him once again It is likely that these experiences with criminals

will not end here As Pip sees Estella in her approaching

carriage, he once again sees the familiar quality to her face - again, he cannot place it

CHAPTER 33 (STILL CH 28 - ABRIDGED) Estella is to go on to Richmond, accompanied by Pip

They sit in a nearby café as they wait for the outgoing coach Estella is going to be educated by a wealthy woman in Richmond who has

but a single daughter

Estella tells Pip that Miss Havisham's relatives hate him because they believe Miss Havisham is his benefactor They are always spouting jealous gossip Estella doesn't think it has tarnished Pip's reputation in Miss Havisham's

eyes

The carriage arrives and they head for Richmond As they talk, Pip believes that they would be blissfully happy together This contrasts the fact that whenever he is with her, he is always miserable

CHAPTER 34 (CHAPTER 29 - ABRIDGED) Pip's conscience begins to bother him

with respect to Joe and Biddy who he continues to ignore

also feels guilty for leading Herbert into a life of debt - Herbert and Pip lead lives based on dinners, drinks, and show

THEME Shows the emptiness he feels with being a

gentleman (money/status cannot buy happiness)

CHAPTER 34 (CH 29 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Although they “check their affairs” by shuffling

papers and bills, neither one really knows how in debt they actually are

They end up joining a men's club called “Finches of the Grove” They meet over dinner, get drunk, and argue Pip doesn't even respect the group enough to

introduce the members' names Pip has chosen a life that alienates himself from the

people he loves, and even alienates him from his true self

CHAPTER 35 (CHAPTER 30 - ABRIDGED) A letter arrives announcing the death

of Mrs. Joe Gargery Pip returns home to attend the funeral

Turns out to be a ridiculous affair put on by Trabb and made worse by Pumblechook and the Hubbles

CHAPTER 35 (CH 30 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Later Joe and Pip sit around the fire like

times of old Here they are comfortable together, unlike

their meeting in London Pip finds out that before his sister died, she

put her head on Joe and said, “Joe…Pardon…Pip.”

CHAPTER 35 (CH 30 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Biddy and Pip go for a walk and Pip asks

what she will do now Biddy is going to open her own school She then insinuates that Pip will not return as

soon as he promises Talking to Biddy is like Pip is having a conversation

with his own conscience - he knows she is right It seems like Biddy knows Pip better than he

knows himself Pip leaves feeling insulted

CHAPTER 36 (CHAPTER 31 - ABRIDGED) Pip “comes of age” - he turns twenty-

one He is hoping that his benefactor will make

him/herself known Jaggers makes an appointment with him

for that evening, so Pip thinks he'll be learning the identity of his benefactor

CHAPTER 36 (CH 31 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Jaggers reveals nothing, but does say that

he doesn't know when his benefactor will choose to reveal him/herself The meeting was to tell Pip that he is now in

charge if his own stipend, which is now set at five hundred pounds a year

A pattern is forming - Pip's expectations are constantly being crushed…in addition Pip is continually dealing with his feelings of guilt and shame

CHAPTER 36 (CH 31 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Jaggers, Pip, and Herbert dine at

Barnards Inn After Jaggers leaves, Herbert expresses his

thoughts about Jaggers, which are shared by Pip; any conversation with Jaggers makes them feel like they're hiding something

Whenever they are with him they feel as if they've committed a crime that they are not even aware of

CHAPTER 37 (STILL CHAPTER 31 - ABRIDGED)

Pip goes to Wemmick's castle and is introduced to Miss Skiffins

Pip asks advice about how to anonymously give Herbert some of his yearly stipend (one hundred pounds a year) With help from Miss Skiffin's brother, who is in finance,

Wemmick and Pip put together a plan whereby Herbert will be given a job with a young merchant

Interesting since in the previous chapter, in response to this same question at Jaggers' office, Wemmick said giving money to help a friend is like throwing money in the Thames

Again points out the duplicity of Wemmick in and out of the work place

CHAPTER 38 (CHAPTER 32 - ABRIDGED) Pip dedicates this chapter to Estella

“I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me.”

A number of times, Pip accompanies Estella on visits to Miss Havisham Miss Havisham wants to hear about all the hearts that

Estella has broken Pip thinks this means that when she is through wreaking

havoc on the male gender, the two of them will be given to each other by Miss Havisham as a reward

It is because of dreams like this that Pip may in a great part be responsible for the torture that he brings on himself

CHAPTER 38 (CH 32 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Miss Havisham's plan to raised Estella to

be loveless seems to backfire when Pip witnesses and argument between the two of them The basis of the argument is that Miss

Havisham has moments when she needs to be loved and appreciated by Estella, but Estella is incapable of love and cannot give affections to even her adoptive mother

Miss Havisham did her job too well

CHAPTER 38 (CH 32 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) Through hanging out with the “Finches

of the Grove,” Pip finds out that Drummle has begun to court Estella Even though he knows that Estella treats

men badly, he is upset that she has begun seeing the most repulsive of Pip's acquaintances

CHAPTER 39 (CHAPTER 33 - ABRIDGED) Pip turns 23 and seems to be doing

nothing with his life He is no longer tutored by Mr. Pocket Tries a few occupations, but doesn't stick

to any of them Spends a lot of time reading

CHAPTER 39 (CH 33 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) A rough, sea worn man of 60 comes to

Pip's home one stormy night Pip invites him in and later realizes he is his

convict that he fed in the marshes when he was a child

He reveals himself as Pip's benefactor He's been living in Australia all these years

making money as a sheep herder Since the day Pip helped him, he swore that

every cent he earned would go to Pip

CHAPTER 39 (CH 33 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.)

Pip is HORRIFIED! All of his expectations are demolished He has been living his life off the hard workings

of a convict IRONY - the convict wanted to make Pip a gentleman,

but Pip has become much less of a noble “gentleman” than when he was a child; he has only made a mess of his life

CHAPTER 39 (CH 33 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) There is no plan by Miss Havisham to

make Pip rich and happy with Estella Pip reacts with anger towards Miss Havisham,

who used him deliberately Is then angry with himself for the way he has

treated others (Biddy/Joe) He saw Joe as common and low class; all the

while he was being supported by someone of the lowest class - a convict

CHAPTER 39 (CH 33 - ABRIDGED) (CONT.) The convict tells Pip that he has risked his

life to come see him - if he is discovered in England, he will be executed Pip gives the convict Herbert's empty bed and

sits by the fire by himself, pondering his miserable position

Pip is totally thankless to the convict, who has shown him nothing but kindness He has shown Pip more kindness than Miss

Havisham ever has!!!

REFERENCESGreat Books: Great Expectations.

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