Month: May 2016

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.

As pip is introduced to is new life in London with a great fortune he finds himself travilling to the Baranrd inn with Mr wemmick where he will be residing. In pips eyes Mr wemmick seems to be a ‘dry man’ and has an expression which seemed to be ‘imperfectly chipped out with a dull edged chisel’. They finally arrived at Barnards inn and to Pips disappintment it is nothing what he expected. Pip imagined it as a hotel but what instead it was a ‘shabby building squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom cats’.

Pip further describes the inn and its surrounding area as a dismal place and melancholy. He discovers that the in was ‘so imperfect was this realisation of the first of my great expectations’. This portays that pip has the depressing thought that Pips great expecations may not turn out to be so ‘great’. Pip enters the dismal inn where he is left in his room. Later Mr pocket(pips tutuor) arrives later followed by his son. Pip sees him as a familiar face but when they first have proper contact they both recognise eachtoher and Mr pockets son turns out to be the pale young gentleman he met at Miss Havishams.

The next day Pip decides to take the deal the lawyer Jaggers has offered. He believes that this offer is just too good to turn down but he feels heavy sympathy for Joe although acting very snobbishly towards most of them.  However all of a sudden people begin to be much nicer to Pip now that hes going to inherit a large fortune especially Pumblechook who always been not the nicest of people to Pip. Still worrying about Joe and the close relationship they have recently grown he attempts to comfort him but he does not see much emotion coming Joe except for sadness. He visits Miss Havishams one last time and begins to believe that Miss Havisham is the mystery person who has gifted Pip with this large sum of money.

Chapter 18 begins with Pip listening in on a story Mr wopsle is sharing about a murder trial from the newspaper. A large dark man began to question wopsle but he seemed rather familiar to Pip. He looked like the man that was on the staircase in miss Haivshams house. He introduces himself as the lawyer Jaggers and explains that Pip will inherit a large fortune if Pip moves to London and become educated as a gentleman. However Pip must never know the name of the man that is giving him this money. Pip is rather struck by this and cant quite believe what he has just been asked.