Phase 2 Review – Part 2
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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!!!
REFERENCES
Great Books: Great Expectations. Discovery
Channel School. 1997.
unitedstreaming. 17 July 2008
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