Month: May 2016

Chapter 39: in this chapter time passes and pip is now 23. One night during a thunderstorm, he hears heavy foot steps coming up the stairs. A old sailor enters Pip’s apartment, and Pip treats him nervously before recognizing him. Its Pip’s convict, the same man who terrorized him in the cemetery and on the marsh when he was a little boy. Pip finds out that the convict went to Australia, where he worked in sheep ranching and earned a huge fortune. Moved by Pip’s kindness to him on the marsh, he arranged to use his wealth to make Pip a gentleman. The convict, not Miss Havisham, is Pip’s secret benefactor. Pip is not meant to marry Estella at all.

Chapter 40: in this chapter Pip trips over a shadowy man crouching on his staircase. He runs to fetch the watchman, but when they return the man is gone. Pip turns his attention to the convict, who gives his name as Abel Magwitch. To keep the servants from finding out the truth, Pip decides to call Magwitch “Uncle Provis,” an alias Magwitch made up for himself on the ship from Australia to England. Pip arranges a disguise and calls Mr Jaggers to confirm Magwitch’s story. Magwitch messes around in the apartment, embarrassing Pip, “his” gentleman, with his bad table manners and rough speech.

Chapter 38: In this chapter pip spends a lot of time with Estella in the house of her London hostess, Mrs. Brandley. However, he is not treated as a serious suitor. he is allowed to accompany Estella everywhere she goes, watching her treat her other suitors cruelly but being more or less ignored himself. He cant understand why Miss Havisham does not say  the details of their engagement, in which he still  believes.  Pip and Estella go to visit the old woman, and Pip observes for the first time a relationship between her and Estella: Miss Havisham leads Estella on to break men’s hearts, but Estella treats Miss Havisham as bad  as she treats her suitors. Shortly after, Pip learns that Drummle is courting Estella. He confronts Estella about the news, but she refuses to take his concern seriously, reminding Pip that he is the only suitor she doesn’t try to deceive.But this makes Pip feel less important to her. That night, the young man imagines his fate as a heavy stone slab hanging over his head, about to fall.

Chapter37: In this chapter pip decides to help Herbert by buying his way into the merchant business. He asks Mr Wemmick for advice at Mr Jaggers office. But Wemmick advises pip not to help Herbert but later on at the castle pip meets Wemmicks girlfriend Miss Skiffins. After that  They find a merchant in need of a young partner, and Pip buys Herbert the partnership. Everything is all arranged anonymously, so that Herbert, like Pip, does not know the identity of his benefactor.

Chapter35: in this chapter pip is really upset that his sister Joe had died. He returns home for the funeral he meets Mr Punblechook who continues to frown over him which was quite annoying. He tries to mend his relationship with Joe and Biddy. But Biddy is not sure if pip is lying as he said he will visit more. Pip says goodbye to them all the next morning truly intending to visit more often.

Chapter36: in this chapter Pip’s twenty-first birthday f arrives, meaning that he is an adult and will begin to receive a regular income from his fortune rather than having to go to Mr Jaggers to access his money. He feels excited, because he hopes that his adulthood will cause Mr Jaggers to tell him the identity of his mysterious benefactor. Despite Herbert’s warning, he feels certain that it is Miss Havisham and that she means for him to marry Estella. For some reason encounter reminds Pip of his meeting with the convict in the graveyard so many years before. Pip still  invites Mr Jaggers to his birthday dinner, but Mr Jaggers’s  presence makes the evening less enjoyable for Pip and Herbert.

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Chapter 29: In this chapter Pip travels to Satis house while he was going there he pictures himself as a knight going to rescue Estella from a castle. Pip meets Orlick and her porter is at the gate. When he sees Estella he is stunned as she has become a beautiful young woman.Despite his new fortune. Pip feels uncomfortable around her. Pip walks with Estella in the garden but she treats him kind of bad and pip feels upset.Pip then  realizes that she reminds him of someone, but he can’t place the resemblance.

Chapter30: In this chapter pip tells Mr Jaggers about Orlicks past then he fires the man from Miss Harvishams employ.Pip is mocked by the tailor’s apprentice as he walks down the street. He returns to London upset where Herbert tries to cheer him up but he also tries to convince him that,even if Miss Havisham is his secret benefactor and she doesn’t intend for him to marry Estella. Herbert confesses to Pip that he, too, is in love and, in fact, has a fiancée named Clara, but he is too poor to marry her.

Chapter31: In this chapter pip and Herbert go to the theatre where wopsle plays hamlet. Pip then  takes the hapless actor out to dinner following the play, but he still remains in a bad mood.

Chapter 26: in this chapter  fellow students attend the dinner at Jagger’s with Pip, and Pip and Drummle quarrel over a loan Drummle ungratefully borrowed from Startop. Jaggers warns Pip to stay away from Drummle, though the lawyer claims to like the disagreeable young man himself.

Chapter 27: in this chapter joe goes to visit pip in London because pip worries that joe wont agree with his wealthy life style and that D Drummle  will look down on him because of Joe. Joe’s visit was awkward he tries to tell pip the news from home Wopsle for instance has become an actor. But Pip acts annoyed with him until Joe mentions that Estella has returned to Satis House and that she wishes to see Pip. Pip suddenly feels more kindly toward Joe, but the blacksmith leaves before Pip can improve his behavior.

Chapter 28: in this chapter Pip is hoping to see Estella and apologize to Joe, pip then travels home but he is forced to share a coach with two convicts, one of the is the mysterious stranger who gave pip money in the pub. Although this man does not recognise pip, pip then overhears them explaining that the convict pip helped long time ago in the marshes asked him to deliver the money to pip. Pip is so terrified by his memory of that night that he gets off the coach at its first stop within the town. When he arrives at his hotel, he reads a notice in a newspaper, from which he learns that Pumblechook is taking credit for his rise in status.