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! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 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.) 6.