Great Expectations
Great Expectations
• Published in 1861
• First published in serialized form
– Each weekly installment contained two
chapters of the story, and was meant to keep
readers interested from week to week
• Traces the story of an orphan named Pip
as he grows up
• Victorian English and Kentish dialect
Weird Old Miss Havisham
• 60: “It was then I began to understand that
everything in the room had stopped, like the
watch and the clock, a long time ago. I noticed
that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly
on the spot from which she had taken it up. As
Estella dealt the cards, I glanced at the dressingtable again, and saw that the silk stocking on it
once white, now yellow, had been trodden
ragged.”
• What has happened?
The Stranger at The Jolly
Bargemen
• Bottom of 77: “He stirred his rum-andwater pointedly at me, and he tasted his
rum-and-water pointedly at me. And he
stirred it and he tasted it: not with a spoon
that was brought to him, but with a file.”
• Why is that important? Who do you think
this stranger is?
Test Review!
Format:
• Character IDs
• Character analysis
• Short Answer
• Quotation Identification (context and significance)
Quotations!
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Chapter 2, pp. 7-8: My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery…both
brought up by hand.
Chapter 9, pp. 70-71: “And then I told Joe that I felt
very miserable… “Likewise you’re a oncommon
scholar.” (2 paragraphs)
Chapter 11, p. 80: There were three ladies in the
room…a toady and humbug.
Chapter 17, p. 129: Do you want to be a
gentleman…wisest of men fall every day? (4
paragraphs)
Chapter 24, p. 202: For several reasons…justice in the
chair that day.
Quotations!
Chapter 32, pp. 260-261: “It struck me that Wemmick
walked among the prisoners…in full blow at their trial. “
7. Chapter 34, p. 274: “We spent as much money as we
could…a rather common one.”
8. Chapter 37, p. 299: “The whole business was…had
done some good to somebody.”
9. Chapter 38, p. 302: “She was even more dreadfully
fond…the beautiful creature she had reared.”
10. Chapter 56, p. 458: “The sun was striking in…and sat
down again.” (ends in the middle of the paragraph.)
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