GE ~ Chapters 1 - 7• Pip’s youthfulness:

– He imagines his family members looking something like their gravestones (757)

– He believes the convict would actually come to kill him if he doesn’t bring him the file and food (758)

– He asks lots of questions (761-762)– He tries to run away abruptly because of the tar water and

missing pie (766-767)– He thinks the cuffs are for him (767)– He doesn’t tell Joe the truth (771)– He falls asleep and Mrs. Joe carries him upstairs (771)– Pip’s childish “epistle” to Joe on 772:

My dear Joe,

I hope you are quite well. I hope I shall soon be able for to teach you, Joe, and then we shall be so glad. And when I am apprenticed to you, Joe: *what larks! And believe me, in affection,

Pip• *”What larks!” means something akin to “What fun!”

GE ~ Chapters 5 - 7• Joe Gargery:

– He says the convict was welcome to his pie (770)

– He is illiterate and amazed by Pip’s letter (772)

– He had an alcoholic father who beat him and his mother (774)

– Joe learned to be a blacksmith to support the family (774)

– His parents died when he was young (774)– He thinks the best of everyone—even his dad

and Mrs. Joe (774)– He expresses great love for Pip (775)

GE ~ Chapter 8• Miss Havisham

– She has withered in the bridal dress, she avoids the sun, and her clock has stopped at 8:40 am.

• Vanity!– Satis House

• Irony: means enough, although it makes Pip unsatisfied. – Estella is beautiful, self-possessed, and scornful of Pip. Pip

becomes infatuated with her because she is beautiful.– Pip reconsiders everything:

• He is a “common laboring boy” (working class vs. Estella’s independent wealth)

• He is ashamed of his hands and boots (poverty / “beggar my neighbor”)

• He called “knaves” “jacks” (ignorance)

Lookism: prejudice or discrimination based on physical appearance and especially physical appearance believed to fall short of societal notions of beauty (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLKIB7s-oY

GE ~ Chapter 13 (798-800)

• Literary Foils: provide characterization through opposite characters

• Joe Gargery vs. Miss Havisham– Joe looks ridiculous in uncomfortable, fancy clothes,

while Miss Havisham is ridiculous in her bridal gown.– Miss H speaks directly and eloquently while Joe

speaks indirectly (through Pip) and foolishly.– Joe demands no premium, but Miss H awkwardly

gives him one for Pip’s apprenticeship.• Pip vs. Estella

– Estella takes “no notice” of Pip, but Pip notices her.– Pip angrily makes faces at Joe while Estella’s “eyes”

laugh mischievously at Joe.

GE ~ Chapter 13 (798-800)

Direct Characterizations

•Joe: poor; sincere; loyal; honest; uneducated; low class

•Estella & Miss H: strange; rich; mean; snobby; proud; rude

•Pip is becoming disloyal; snobby; self-centered; vain

– “I was truly wretched…I had liked it [Joe’s trade] once, but once was not now.”

GE ~ Chapter 22 (829 - 831)Miss Havisham’s Story•She was the spoiled child of a rich gentleman; her mother died when she was a baby.•She had a “party-animal” half-brother who wasted his wealth.•She falls in love and gets engaged.

– She refuses the counsel of her cousin, Matthew Pocket.

•On her wedding day, her “lover” left her in the dressing room (at 9:20 am) and she never recovered.

– She has adopted and raised Estella to “wreak revenge on all the male sex.”

•It was rumored that her “lover” was working with her half-brother.

GE ~ Chapter 27 (842 - 844)Joe’s Visit

Joe:•dressed in fancy clothes and a hat (“bird’s nest with eggs”)•nervous and jumbled in conversation (again)•Speech: “Pip…God bless you!”•Joe has simple dignity and he vows not to visit Pip anymore.

– IRONY: Joe is content to be his own simple self.

Pip:•dreads his visit and is embarrassed by Joe’s lack of class•Pip realizes he made Joe nervous•Pip is touched by Joe’s speech but does not go after him until too late.

–IRONY: Pip is very vain and insecure even though his status is rising.

Pip’s “Great Expectations”

1. “Great Expectations” = Pip receives “a prospect of future good or profit.” (815) <www.dictionary.com>

2. “Great Expectations” = Pip assumes that his benefactor is Miss Havisham and that she is preparing him for Estella. His reasons include…

• His tutor is Matthew Pocket, Miss H’s relative. (816)• Mr. Jaggers is Miss H’s lawyer. (828)• Estella is sent to Pip in London by Miss Havisham. (854)• Pip brings E back to Miss H and still thinks she has her planned for him

once she had “wreaked…revenge on men for a term.” (870)

3. Letdown = Estella is marrying Bentley Drummle and Pip’s benefactor is his convict, Provis!

• Irony: Pip is only selfishly upset that he cannot have E, but E may be showing love to him by not “deceiving and entrapping” him. (872)

• Irony: During a stormy night (foreshadowing), Pip’s benefactor turns out to be his convict, Provis (or “Abel Magwitch”)!• Pip: “Miss H…that I had deserted Joe.” (877)• Pip’s rise in status and infatuation has led him to a downfall far worse

than his original state of simplicity at the forge.

• Pip’s Vanity:• Pip’s feelings for Estella are only based on her looks; she is heartless

and he has never enjoyed her company.

• Estella has already warned him that she has no love or tenderness towards anything, including Pip or Miss H. (849)

• Pip goes on “against trust and against hope” in his infatuation (just like Miss H’s twisted definition of love on 849).

• Pip’s assumption about his benefactor was only based on appearances and his own desires.

• *Jaggers: “Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”

• Pip’s Selfless Acts: • Pip anonymously gives Herbert income and has Wemmick find him a

job. (867-868)

• Pip asks Miss H to continue Herbert’s income. (891)

• Pip begs with E not to marry Drummle for her own good. (892)

GE Chapters 45 - 51• Pip’s Paranoia:

• Pip thinks everyone is watching him. (900)

• Wopsle points out that he has seen a man who looks like Compeyson following Pip. (902)

• Plot Points through Pip’s dinner with Mr. Jaggers:

• Miss Havisham wants to see Pip over “business” (“Herbert’s expectations”) (903)

• The “Spider” (Bentley Drummle) has married Estella. (903)

• Pip: “I felt absolutely certain that this woman [Molly] was Estella’s mother.” (904)

• Wemmick says that Jaggers defended Molly when she was accused of murder and disposing of her daughter. (904)

• Herbert and Pip discover Provis is Estella’s father and Molly is her mother!

• Pip’s Characterization:

• Pip forgives Miss H! (906)

• Recognition: “I can do it now…to be bitter with you.” (Luke 7:41-50)

• Pip saves Miss H by putting out the fire.

• Pip goes to the Sluice House alone for Provis’s sake.

GE Chapters 52 - 55• Orlick’s Villainous Plan

• Angry at Pip for getting him fired as Miss Havisham’s security guard.• He traps Pip and says he will dispose of his remains in the kiln.

• Pip is worried about being misremembered:• Provis would think he deserted him.• Herbert would doubt him.• Joe and Biddy would not know he was sorry.• Estella and her children would despise him.

• Hebert, Startop, and Trabb’s boy rescue him!• Herbert found the letter because Pip dropped it.• Pip now has a second chance, just like Ebenezer Scrooge!

• Magwitch is Arrested• The officers seize the boat and arrest Magwitch.• Compeyson turned him in, but Compeyson drowns when he and Magwitch fight and

fall into the Thames.• Magwitch is sentenced to death.

• Irony: His return was for Pip’s sake, not for a lack of repentance!• Pip’s Characterization:

• Pip stays by Magwitch until he dies.• Pip says M treated him better than he treated Joe.• Pip is glad that M won’t know that Pip will not receive the rest of his money.

• Pip goes to Mr. Jaggers to see if anything can be down for Magwitch.• Pip appeals to the Home Secretary of State for Magwitch’s sake.

GE Chapters 46 – 58 ~ The Published Ending!

• Conflict Resolutions:• Miss Havisham has died. She left 4,000 pounds to Matthew Pocket!• Pip is deathly ill and arrested because of his debt.

• Joe tends to Pip, houses him, and pays off his debts. • Alludes to the Parable of the Good Samaritan • But, “as [Pip] became stronger, Joe became less easy on [him]”

• Joe calls Pip “sir” and did all this good for Pip expecting Pip to desert him!

• Joe’s motives are so pure!• Pip asks for forgiveness and is forgiven by Joe and Biddy.• Pip works for Clarriker & Co. and now values honest work over independent

wealth.• P: “We were not in any grand way of business, but we had a good name,

and worked for our profits, and did very well.”• Biddy and Joe are married, and Herbert and Clara are married!

• Pip is happy for them, instead of being selfish and jealous.• Pip and Estella are reunited!

• The Satis house has been dismantled, but it is being rebuilt (as a symbol of the suffering and growth that has taken place in Pip and Estella’s lives).

• Both have been “bent and broken…into a better shape.”