Chs. 16-18
New characters:
Jaggers: A lawyer in London.
New Setting:
Countryside: Where Biddy and Pip go on a walk and talk about Pip’s dreams.
Ch. 16: Mrs. Joe is attacked with a leg iron, Pip feels guilty.
Ch. 17: biddy moves in to help care for Mrs. Joe and Pip starts to connect with her.
Ch. 18: Pip and Joe join the men for a night at the pub where they meet Jaggers, who at
first insults Mr. Wopsle and then tells Pip that he has come into a large property.
These chapters show the true emotional level of the novel. Pip is full of emotion.
Spite for Estella, confusion over how he feels about Biddy, and sadness and happiness
about leaving to London. He is fulfilling his dreams, but he does not know if he really
wants his dreams to be fulfilled. It seems like he is wondering if what he wanted is what
he really wants. “it was an uneasy bed now, and I never slept the old sound sleep in it any
more.” (154) his sheer confusion over his situation is shown here. He can not sleep
soundly at night due to how he feels a bout going to London. He’s nervous, and he would
have never imagined that he would not want to leave the forge.
Chs. 19-21
New Characters
Mr. Trabb: the tailor, makes Pip his new clothes.
Trabb’s boy: Seems to be Mr. Trabb’s son, but is not known for sure.
The coachman: drives Pip to Mr. Jaggers’
The clerk: takes Pip to a back room where he first sees mike.
Mike: One of Jaggers’ clients, and has only one eye.
Mr. Wemmick: Dry man, short in stature.
Mr. Pocket, Junior: The pale young gentlemen
New Settings:
London: Dirty, and dark.
Jaggers’ office: Where Jaggers’ business is conducted, and Pip’s first destination in
London.
Herbert Pocket’s apartment: Where Pip spends the night until he heads to the Pockets’.
Ch. 19: pip goes to the tailor for new clothes, and to many other places of business for a
full suit. Also sees Mr. Pumblechook and visits Miss Havisham.
Ch.20: Pip sees London for the mess it is, and also goes to Jaggers’ office.
Ch. 21: Pip is taken to Herbert pocket’s apartment where he learns the Herbert is the pale
young gentlemen.
In these chapters, a showing of Pip’s growth is shown. Throughout these chapters,
Pip feels greater than everyone else around him, one because he has been close with Mrs.
Havisham, and two because he now has a fortune. “you are dissatisfied on account of my
rise in fortune […] it’s a bad side of human nature.” this is from when Pip is speaking
with Biddy, and it shows his growth, but not really a good growth. After news of his
fortune, Pip starts to act stuck up around Biddy and everyone else in his home. He
automatically jumps to the conclusion that Biddy is jealous about his fortune when really
she was only trying to speak with him.
Chs. 22-24
New Characters:
Matthew Pocket: absentminded but kind
Drummle: oafish and unpleasant
Startop: soft and delicate.
New Settings:
Pocket House: The home of the man that will tutor Pip.
Police Court: Where Pip witnesses the savage job that Jaggers does in court.
Ch. 22: Pip and Herbert speak of their past, and Miss Havisham. Pip learns miss
Havisham’s story and how Estella is adopted.
Ch. 23: Pip goes to the Pockets’ house where he meets the Pocket family including his
new tutor.
Ch. 24: Pip goes back to Jaggers’ office and sees him at work.
Upon Pip’s visit to London, he discovers that the world is not the quiet, quaint
countryside that he once thought it was. He sees that London is dark almost evil and that
everyone has a separate agenda. Everyone in this world is looking out for themselves, and
Pip is thrown amongst this from something completely unlike it. London is full of crime
and wrongdoing. London is like the majority of the world during that point in time, and
Pip is just learning this.
Chs. 25-27
New Characters:
Aged Parent: Seemingly deaf, lives with Wemmicks.
Little girl: Takes care of the Aged.
New Setting:
Wemmick’s home: Pip goes here for dinner one night, where he meets the Aged and
enjoys dinner with Wemmicks.
Ch. 25- Pip dines with Wemmick, and meets the Aged parent
Ch. 26: Pip and Drummle have a conflict and then pip goes to see Jaggers.
Ch. 27: Joe visits Pip in London, and it is quite awkward due to how joe is treating Pip
extremely different.
Dickins’ uses joe as a way to poke fun at the lower classes of society. He shows
him as very uneducated, and because of this he can not seem to comprehend simple
things such as having the confidence to talk to someone. It is shown in miss Havisham’s
when he talks to Pip instead of Miss Havisham, and it is shown when he visits pip and
treats him totally different. “Whenever he subsided into affection, he called me Pip, but
whenever he relapsed into politeness, he called me sir.” (235) this shows Joe’s seemingly
immature way of handling things. He also feels that everything has changed and this
could be a result of a lack of education. He does not have the confidence to hold his own
in a conversation and not worry about being punished for barbaric things, even with the
boy he raised.