Chapter 22 follows on from where Pip and Mr pockets son realise they have met before at Miss Havishams. Pip discovers that Mr pocket son thinks of estella having met her before as a ‘Tartar’. He states that she is ‘haughty and calricious to the last degree and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all male sex’.

We as the readers know strongly that this is true but pip still has fierce love for Estella. Pip is then informed that Estella is actually Miss Havishams adopted daughter and that Mr Pocket is is Miss Havishams cousin.

At dinner with Mr pocket pip is taught how to properly eat like a ‘gentleman’ and how he should hold his cutlery and use it. As they continue to converse pip mentions the promise pocket kept which was to tell Pip about Miss Havisham. He says how miss havisham was an only child and how mother died young but her father was a very rich brewer. Then how when Miss havisham was older an odd sort of man began to become devoted to her and how she passionatly loved her.