1. Great Expectations
Chapters 24-31

2. Chapter 24
What instruction has Mr. Jaggers’ received about Pip’s career?
4 x 5
Jaggers was testing Pip
Tour of Jaggers’ office
“two odious casts”
2 famous criminals
1 male, 1 female
Casts made right after they died

3. Chapter 25, Wemmick’s Home
Aged Parent
Deaf and funny
Jaggers has never seen Wemmick’s home
Wemmick keeps his home life separate from the office
Asks Pip to keep it a secret, as well
Change in Wemmicks’ disposition as he neared the office

4. Chapter 26 Very nervous around Jaggers
Enables us to get a better perception of Jaggers
Jaggers takes a liking to Drummle (“the spider”)
Housekeeper, Molly
Page 213
Very nervous around Jaggers
Wrists
Scars seem to be part of a secret that Jaggers and Molly Share

5. Chapter 26 Pip lives extravagantly Boasts of his great prospects
Discussion about loaning money
Angers Drummle
Does Drummle remind you of another character?

6. Chapter 27 Letter from Biddy
Describe how Pip felt when he learned of Joe’s upcoming visit to London
What does this show you about Pip’s character? Is he changing? Is he the same?
Who is “the Avenger?”

7. Chapter 27 Who travels with Joe to London?
How has this character “had a drop?”
Joe brings a message from Ms. Havisham

8. Chapter 27
Joe refers to Pip as “Sir” throughout his visit and seems noticeably nervous and uncomfortable.
WHY??
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a goldsmith…You and me is not two figures to be together in London…God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, God bless you!”

9. Chapter 28
Pip feels badly about how Joe left London the previous day…BUT…
2 Convicts would be traveling to the dockyards in the same stage-coach Pip was taking to the marshes.
A familiar face
The man does NOT recognize Pip
However, we now know who was responsible for the two one-pound notes.

10. Chapter 29 Pip’s return to Satis House
Pip believes Ms. Havisham intended him and Estella to be together
Pip says this about Estella,
“I loved her simply because I found her irresistible…I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness…”
Thoughts?

11. Chapter 29 Changes at Satis
Of course Ms. H. remains the same
Pip anxiously awaits for Estella at the gate, when SURPRISE!!
It’s ‘ole Orlick!
He’s able to intimidate others and it’s easier than being a blacksmith
“an elegant lady whom I had never seen.”

12. Estella Returns Estella’s eyes She was even more beautiful
Under Estella’s gaze, Pip “slipped hopelessly back into the coarse and common boy again.”

13. Confessions
“You must know that I have no heart… I am serious; if we are going to be thrown much together, you had better believe it at once.”
What can we learn about Estella from this statement? Look beyond the text.
Maybe she’s not at heartless as we all thought.

14. What is Love? According to Ms. Havisham: Do you agree? Blind devotion
Unquestioning self-humiliation
Utter submission
Trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world
Giving up your heart and soul.
Do you agree?

15. Regrets
“I never thought there was anything low and small about me keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him. It was but a day gone, and Joe had brought tears into my eyes; they had soon dried—God forgive me!—soon dried.
Estella was the reason behind Pip’s bad decision.
What does this line reveal about Pip as an adult?

16. Chapter 30
Pip voiced his concerns to Jaggers about Orlick working at Ms. Havisham’s
Pip confesses to Herbert that he loves Estella
Herbert’s reaction
Pip yearns to know just what his “expectations” are and if Estella really is one of them
Does Herbert believe Pip was “designed” for Estella?
Herbert’s secret

17. Chapter 31 “On our arrival in Denmark” The play is awful
Not really; Hamlet is set in Denmark
The play is awful
The ghost of Hamlet’s father coughs constantly
He carried his lines around with him
One boy changed roles throughout the play
Coffin was “an empty black box with the lid tumbling open”
When the prince asked questions, the audience answered

18. Chapter 31
Pip and Herbert leave immediately after the play, hoping to avoid Wopsle
Feeling sorry for him, Pip invites Wopsle to supper
Pip goes to bed miserable