Question

Summary of great expectation

Answer 1

a young orphan living with his sister and
her husband in the marshes of Kent, sits in a
cemetery one evening looking at his parents’
tombstones. Suddenly, an escaped convict
springs up from behind a tombstone, grabs
Pip, and orders him to bring him food and a
file for his leg irons. Pip obeys, but the
fearsome convict is soon captured anyway.
The convict protects Pip by claiming to have
stolen the items himself.
One day Pip is taken by his Uncle
Pumblechook to play at Satis House, the
home of the wealthy dowager Miss Havisham,
who is extremely eccentric: she wears an old
wedding dress everywhere she goes and keeps
all the clocks in her house stopped at the
same time. During his visit, he meets a
beautiful young girl named Estella , who treats
him coldly and contemptuously. Nevertheless,
he falls in love with her and dreams of
becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he
might be worthy of her. He even hopes that
Miss Havisham intends to make him a
gentleman and marry him to Estella, but his
hopes are dashed when, after months of
regular visits to Satis House, Miss Havisham
decides to help him become a common laborer
in his family’s business.
With Miss Havisham’s guidance, Pip is
apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Joe, who is
the village blacksmith. Pip works in the forge
unhappily, struggling to better his education
with the help of the plain, kind Biddy and
encountering Joe’s malicious day laborer,
Orlick. One night, after an altercation with
Orlick, Pip’s sister, known as Mrs. Joe, is
viciously attacked and becomes a mute
invalid. From her signals, Pip suspects that
Orlick was responsible for the attack.
One day a lawyer named Jaggers appears with
strange news: a secret benefactor has given
Pip a large fortune, and Pip must come to
London immediately to begin his education as
a gentleman. Pip happily assumes that his
previous hopes have come true—that Miss
Havisham is his secret benefactor and that
the old woman intends for him to marry
Estella.
In London, Pip befriends a young gentleman
named Herbert Pocket and Jaggers’s law
clerk, Wemmick. He expresses disdain for his
former friends and loved ones, especially Joe,
but he continues to pine after Estella. He
furthers his education by studying with the
tutor Matthew Pocket, Herbert’s father.
Herbert himself helps Pip learn how to act like
a gentleman. When Pip turns twenty-one and
begins to receive an income from his fortune,
he will secretly help Herbert buy his way into
the business he has chosen for himself. But
for now, Herbert and Pip lead a fairly
undisciplined life in London, enjoying
themselves and running up debts. Orlick
reappears in Pip’s life, employed as Miss
Havisham’s porter, but is promptly fired by
Jaggers after Pip reveals Orlick’s unsavory
past. Mrs. Joe dies, and Pip goes home for
the funeral, feeling tremendous grief and
remorse. Several years go by, until one night a
familiar figure barges into Pip’s room—the
convict, Magwitch, who stuns Pip by
announcing that he, not Miss Havisham, is the
source of Pip’s fortune. He tells Pip that he
was so moved by Pip’s boyhood kindness that
he dedicated his life to making Pip a
gentleman, and he made a fortune in Australia
for that very purpose.

Answer 2

Answer:

Great expectation represents the story of the orphan Pip in his quest for maturation. As a Bildungsroman, Pip narrates his life retrospectively, from childhood to adulthood. Joe Gargery is Pip's brother-in-law. He is married to Pip's sister. He is also, officially, Pip's master as Pip is apprenticed to him.

In the Bildungsroman, Pip develops as a character that is innocent at the start and experienced at the end. The relationship between Pip and Joe plays a huge role in this.

During the boyhood days, Pip was ill-treated by Mrs. Gargery and her circle of friends. At that time, it was Joe alone to whom Pip could turn for sympathy and Joe had that in plenty.

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