GREAT EXPECTATIONS – summary by Riya Naidoo
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First chapter opens in the graveyard/churchyard. Pip stands in front of his parents’ tombstones; Pip
is deemed as imaginative, as he imagines how his parents looked. He begins to cry after finding
multiple tombstones of people known to him.
Pip and the convict come face to face; Pip points to were his village lay. The convict has hidden with
another young man. Compared to the young man, the convict is an angel. The convict protects Pip
on condition that Pip brings him money and food.
Pip’s sister brought him up by hand; 20 year older than him; built a good reputation for herself and
the neighbours because she abused him. Not a good-looking woman, black eyes and hair. Pip had
the impression Joe was married to her due to her hand.
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Mrs. Joe forces her husband to eat the nasty tasting bread and butter. Pip hides the bread and butter
in the leg of his pants. Pip robs Mrs. Joe of money for the convict.
Pip has never been allowed a candle to light him to bed.
The pantry was rarely filled with food.
Pip steals groceries and a pie and runs off into the night.
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People hardly visited their village. Pip admits he had a guilty mind for stealing the pork pie.
Pip approaches the convict and touches his shoulder. The convict was in fact a different man.
The convict starts to trust him as he understands Pip did not give anyone office to follow him.
Pip compares the man’s manner of eating to one of a dogs.
The convict only hears guns.
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Mrs. Joe views herself as a slave. Her normal state was of a cross temper. She was a clean house
keeper. Pip views his sin of stealing pie as a wicked secret.
Mrs. Joe has guests over for dinner. She changing her curtains and dinnerware.
Every Christmas Uncle Pumblechook presents himself as a novelty to Mrs, Joe by gifting her port
wine and sherry wine.
Mrs Hubble was much younger than Mr Hubble.
,Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook tell Pip to always be grateful especially to the one who brought you up by
the hand.
Joe comforts Pip with gravy.
Mr. P chokes on the tar water brandy.
Before any could cut into the savoury pork pie Pip ran to the door; however, little did he know the
file soldiers and musketeers waiting to handcuff him outside the door.
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The soldiers visit made Mrs. Joe liberal.
Mr. Pumblechook liberally passed round the brandy and the wine. Even Pip got some.
Joe carries Pip on his back as he joins the soldiers to look for the convicts and started to run due to
the sergeant command. Joe calls it “a winder”.
The convicts are finally found, and argue in the presence of the sergeant.
They both travelled with the soldiers and convicts because Joe was resolved to see it out.
The convict states that the Blacksmith’s gave him pie and liquor.
The convict gets onto a boat.
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“The dear fellow let me love him”- that’s why Pip loved Joe.
Pip feared losing Joe and Joe’s confidence in him; who was his companion and friend.
Pip states he was cowardly to do what was right or wrong.
Pip states that he had no intercourse with world at that time and he intimated nobody who acted
cowardly.
The fear of being found out was lifted off Pip.
Mr. Pumblechook drove a chaise cart.
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Pip indicates who could barely read the letters on his parents’ tomb. Thus, indicating poor education.
Pip waited to be old enough to be Joe’s apprentice.
Pip knows he will not be handed down any treasure.
Biddy was Mr Wopsel’s great-aunt granddaughter.
Pip could barely communicate through letter writing. His writing was rather “hilly”. He accidentally
held the bible upside-down.
Joe has an education yet in infancy. He did not receive a proper education due to his father being a
drunk and beating his father. His father was a hinderance to his learning.
,Joe made a couplet himself. Joe states poetry costs money.
When Joe first met Pip, he thought it was kind of Pip’s sister to bring him up. Joe stated that he
opted to bring Pip along to their forge.
Pip’s sister was given to the government. This is the first time we get to know that Joe has a stutter.
Pip had dated a new admiration of Joe even though he was young.
This is the first time in the novel we introduced to an immensely grim and rich lady, Mrs. Havisham.
She wants pip to go and play there. This boys fortune might be made by going to Mrs. Havisham’s.
She’s known to live in uptown, who led a life of seclusion.
Pip is cleaned and put into stiff linen. Mr. Pumblechook sees him off to go and play at Mrs.
Havisham. Pip is highly confused.
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The roof was 1 foot away from Pip’s eyebrow and he slept in the attic room.
Pip considered Mr. Pumblechook wretched company. He gave Pip crumbs with little butter, with a
glass of milk diluted mostly with water.
Estella (the girl; Mrs. H niece) is introduced to Pip. She tells him about the names of Ms. Havisham’s
house- Manor House and Satis house, meaning enough. She takes him to a dressing room. Pip sees a
woman (Ms. H) dressed in rich material. The bride had withered like the dress. She states she has
some sick fancies. She derogatively calls him boy.
Time has come to a standstill just like the watches and clocks. Ms. H wants to see Estella break Pip’s
heart, possibly to get joy out of re-living her past and seeing herself in Estella position.
Estella says hard things about Pip. Pip dos not retaliate emphasizing his gentleness.
He views his hands as course and his boot as common for the first time- status is suddenly apparent
to him.
He feels hurt when Estella treats him in an undignified manner by places his drink on the floor and
his food without looking at him.
Overgrown garden, untamed.
On a wooden beam, Pip said he sees a figure of Ms. Havisham hanging by the neck. He was terrified.
Estella tells Pip, why don’t you cry. She closes the gate on him.
He revolved that he was a common labouring boy.
He considers himself extremely ignorant and low-lived.
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Pip heads back to the forge and answers to his sister’s questions regarding his experience at Ms.
Havisham house. Mrs. Joe soon shoves Pip’s his face against the kitchen wall.
Mr. Pumblechook perseveres in asking how Pip’s experience was at Ms. Havisham’s. Mrs. Joe was
about to lose her temper, however Mr. Pumblechook calmed her down.
, He asked what like is Ms. Havisham. Mr. P had never seen her before. He only speaks to him through
a door ajar. She was tall and dark according to Pip. Mr. P asked what she was doing. She was siting in
a black velvet couch. She had 4 immense dogs. Pip lies and says he had played with Estella and Mrs.
H
Pip tells Joe the truth regarding Mrs. Havisham. He tells him that he wishes that he was not common
and that he finds the girl beautiful and full of pride.
Joe tells him that he is uncommon in most things. Joe thinks a lot of Pip. Joe is not angry with Pp for
lying. Joe tells him to repent for his sins by praying. Pip thinks about how Estella will perceive Joe as
common. The day he went o
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Pip tried to learn from Biddy on how to be uncommon. Mr Wopsel’s great aunt was a teacher; she
went into a coma. It appeared to Pip it would take time to become uncommon.
Joe and Wopsel sit smoking a pipe, Pip meets a strange man, Mr. Gargery. Mr. G says Pip looks like
bones. Mr. G persistently asked what relationship Joe and Pip shared, if Pip was not his son. Mr. G
knew the convict that interacted with Pip- Mr. G stirs his rum and water and shows a file of Pip’s
convict. Joe had to rinse the rum out with air- stating that he is not used to quality rum.
Pip’s guilty conscience eats him due to his misdeeds with the convict.
Mrs. Joe finds to 1-pound notes in the paper.
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Pip arrives back at Ms. H.
There is a clock on the wall, that was stopped at the same time as Ms.H
Estella tells Pip to stand at the window until he was wanted.
It was winter. There was a fire lit. there was snowfall outside.
people are seated in the lounge awaiting one’s pleasure Pip compares his sister to a woman
whereby it was a mercy she had any features at all.
Estella asks Pip if she was pretty and
Pip meets on the stairs.
Ms. Havisham asks Pip if he is willing to work, if not play.
Ornaments on the table were heavily hung with cobwebs, with speckled spiders and mice rattling
behind the panels.
Pip compares Ms. H to a witch. She tells Pip this cobwebbed room is were she shall lay on the table
when she’s dead.
Mathew Ms. H’s unrequited lover will only see her again dead on the table
Ms. H looks fragile and she stares down the table as if she can foresee her corpse lay there.
Estella refrained from talking condescendingly upon Pip, however Pip is still fed outside like a dog.
1
First chapter opens in the graveyard/churchyard. Pip stands in front of his parents’ tombstones; Pip
is deemed as imaginative, as he imagines how his parents looked. He begins to cry after finding
multiple tombstones of people known to him.
Pip and the convict come face to face; Pip points to were his village lay. The convict has hidden with
another young man. Compared to the young man, the convict is an angel. The convict protects Pip
on condition that Pip brings him money and food.
Pip’s sister brought him up by hand; 20 year older than him; built a good reputation for herself and
the neighbours because she abused him. Not a good-looking woman, black eyes and hair. Pip had
the impression Joe was married to her due to her hand.
2
Mrs. Joe forces her husband to eat the nasty tasting bread and butter. Pip hides the bread and butter
in the leg of his pants. Pip robs Mrs. Joe of money for the convict.
Pip has never been allowed a candle to light him to bed.
The pantry was rarely filled with food.
Pip steals groceries and a pie and runs off into the night.
3
People hardly visited their village. Pip admits he had a guilty mind for stealing the pork pie.
Pip approaches the convict and touches his shoulder. The convict was in fact a different man.
The convict starts to trust him as he understands Pip did not give anyone office to follow him.
Pip compares the man’s manner of eating to one of a dogs.
The convict only hears guns.
4
Mrs. Joe views herself as a slave. Her normal state was of a cross temper. She was a clean house
keeper. Pip views his sin of stealing pie as a wicked secret.
Mrs. Joe has guests over for dinner. She changing her curtains and dinnerware.
Every Christmas Uncle Pumblechook presents himself as a novelty to Mrs, Joe by gifting her port
wine and sherry wine.
Mrs Hubble was much younger than Mr Hubble.
,Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook tell Pip to always be grateful especially to the one who brought you up by
the hand.
Joe comforts Pip with gravy.
Mr. P chokes on the tar water brandy.
Before any could cut into the savoury pork pie Pip ran to the door; however, little did he know the
file soldiers and musketeers waiting to handcuff him outside the door.
5
The soldiers visit made Mrs. Joe liberal.
Mr. Pumblechook liberally passed round the brandy and the wine. Even Pip got some.
Joe carries Pip on his back as he joins the soldiers to look for the convicts and started to run due to
the sergeant command. Joe calls it “a winder”.
The convicts are finally found, and argue in the presence of the sergeant.
They both travelled with the soldiers and convicts because Joe was resolved to see it out.
The convict states that the Blacksmith’s gave him pie and liquor.
The convict gets onto a boat.
6
“The dear fellow let me love him”- that’s why Pip loved Joe.
Pip feared losing Joe and Joe’s confidence in him; who was his companion and friend.
Pip states he was cowardly to do what was right or wrong.
Pip states that he had no intercourse with world at that time and he intimated nobody who acted
cowardly.
The fear of being found out was lifted off Pip.
Mr. Pumblechook drove a chaise cart.
7
Pip indicates who could barely read the letters on his parents’ tomb. Thus, indicating poor education.
Pip waited to be old enough to be Joe’s apprentice.
Pip knows he will not be handed down any treasure.
Biddy was Mr Wopsel’s great-aunt granddaughter.
Pip could barely communicate through letter writing. His writing was rather “hilly”. He accidentally
held the bible upside-down.
Joe has an education yet in infancy. He did not receive a proper education due to his father being a
drunk and beating his father. His father was a hinderance to his learning.
,Joe made a couplet himself. Joe states poetry costs money.
When Joe first met Pip, he thought it was kind of Pip’s sister to bring him up. Joe stated that he
opted to bring Pip along to their forge.
Pip’s sister was given to the government. This is the first time we get to know that Joe has a stutter.
Pip had dated a new admiration of Joe even though he was young.
This is the first time in the novel we introduced to an immensely grim and rich lady, Mrs. Havisham.
She wants pip to go and play there. This boys fortune might be made by going to Mrs. Havisham’s.
She’s known to live in uptown, who led a life of seclusion.
Pip is cleaned and put into stiff linen. Mr. Pumblechook sees him off to go and play at Mrs.
Havisham. Pip is highly confused.
8
The roof was 1 foot away from Pip’s eyebrow and he slept in the attic room.
Pip considered Mr. Pumblechook wretched company. He gave Pip crumbs with little butter, with a
glass of milk diluted mostly with water.
Estella (the girl; Mrs. H niece) is introduced to Pip. She tells him about the names of Ms. Havisham’s
house- Manor House and Satis house, meaning enough. She takes him to a dressing room. Pip sees a
woman (Ms. H) dressed in rich material. The bride had withered like the dress. She states she has
some sick fancies. She derogatively calls him boy.
Time has come to a standstill just like the watches and clocks. Ms. H wants to see Estella break Pip’s
heart, possibly to get joy out of re-living her past and seeing herself in Estella position.
Estella says hard things about Pip. Pip dos not retaliate emphasizing his gentleness.
He views his hands as course and his boot as common for the first time- status is suddenly apparent
to him.
He feels hurt when Estella treats him in an undignified manner by places his drink on the floor and
his food without looking at him.
Overgrown garden, untamed.
On a wooden beam, Pip said he sees a figure of Ms. Havisham hanging by the neck. He was terrified.
Estella tells Pip, why don’t you cry. She closes the gate on him.
He revolved that he was a common labouring boy.
He considers himself extremely ignorant and low-lived.
9
Pip heads back to the forge and answers to his sister’s questions regarding his experience at Ms.
Havisham house. Mrs. Joe soon shoves Pip’s his face against the kitchen wall.
Mr. Pumblechook perseveres in asking how Pip’s experience was at Ms. Havisham’s. Mrs. Joe was
about to lose her temper, however Mr. Pumblechook calmed her down.
, He asked what like is Ms. Havisham. Mr. P had never seen her before. He only speaks to him through
a door ajar. She was tall and dark according to Pip. Mr. P asked what she was doing. She was siting in
a black velvet couch. She had 4 immense dogs. Pip lies and says he had played with Estella and Mrs.
H
Pip tells Joe the truth regarding Mrs. Havisham. He tells him that he wishes that he was not common
and that he finds the girl beautiful and full of pride.
Joe tells him that he is uncommon in most things. Joe thinks a lot of Pip. Joe is not angry with Pp for
lying. Joe tells him to repent for his sins by praying. Pip thinks about how Estella will perceive Joe as
common. The day he went o
10
Pip tried to learn from Biddy on how to be uncommon. Mr Wopsel’s great aunt was a teacher; she
went into a coma. It appeared to Pip it would take time to become uncommon.
Joe and Wopsel sit smoking a pipe, Pip meets a strange man, Mr. Gargery. Mr. G says Pip looks like
bones. Mr. G persistently asked what relationship Joe and Pip shared, if Pip was not his son. Mr. G
knew the convict that interacted with Pip- Mr. G stirs his rum and water and shows a file of Pip’s
convict. Joe had to rinse the rum out with air- stating that he is not used to quality rum.
Pip’s guilty conscience eats him due to his misdeeds with the convict.
Mrs. Joe finds to 1-pound notes in the paper.
11
Pip arrives back at Ms. H.
There is a clock on the wall, that was stopped at the same time as Ms.H
Estella tells Pip to stand at the window until he was wanted.
It was winter. There was a fire lit. there was snowfall outside.
people are seated in the lounge awaiting one’s pleasure Pip compares his sister to a woman
whereby it was a mercy she had any features at all.
Estella asks Pip if she was pretty and
Pip meets on the stairs.
Ms. Havisham asks Pip if he is willing to work, if not play.
Ornaments on the table were heavily hung with cobwebs, with speckled spiders and mice rattling
behind the panels.
Pip compares Ms. H to a witch. She tells Pip this cobwebbed room is were she shall lay on the table
when she’s dead.
Mathew Ms. H’s unrequited lover will only see her again dead on the table
Ms. H looks fragile and she stares down the table as if she can foresee her corpse lay there.
Estella refrained from talking condescendingly upon Pip, however Pip is still fed outside like a dog.
