One evening, a powerful London lawyer, Mr. Pip is attracted to her even though she is not educated and polished like Estella. Biddy comes to live with them to help out. On his way home from that visit, Pip finds out his sister was almost murdered and is now mentally crippled. Orlick resents Pip and hates Pip's abusive sister. Pip continues to visit Miss Havisham on his birthday and on one of these occasions, his leaving work early instigates a fistfight between Joe and Joe's assistant, Dolge Orlick. The man has the file that Pip stole for the convict years before.
During this time, he encounters a strange man at the Jolly Bargemen, a local pub. However, he hides his feelings from Joe and performs his duties. Pip had looked forward to that for years, but now that he has seen "genteel" life, he views the forge as a death sentence. Biddy's grandmother runs the night school.Īfter a number of months, Miss Havisham pays for Pip's blacksmithing apprenticeship with Joe. Pip tries to better himself to win Estella's admiration by working harder with his friend, Biddy, at night school. Pip does earn a kiss from Estella when he beats one of the relatives, the Pale Young Gentleman, in a fistfight.
He also meets her toady relatives who want her money and hate Pip. Although the visits are emotionally painful and demeaning, Pip continues to go there for several months to play with Estella and to wheel Miss Havisham around. Pip is immediately attracted to Estella in spite of how she and Miss Havisham treat him. Estella is beautiful but haughty and tells Pip that he is coarse and common. The house has been left as it was on her wedding day and even the old wedding cake is still on the table. Miss Havisham's fiancé jilted her on her wedding day and she still wears her old wedding gown, although she's now elderly and wheel-chair-bound. Pip's pompous Uncle Pumblechook arranges for Pip to go to the house of a wealthy reclusive woman, Miss Havisham, to play with her adopted daughter, Estella. Shortly afterward, both convicts are recaptured while fighting each other. Returning with these the next morning, Pip discovers a second escaped convict, an enemy of the first one. The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him, as well as a metal file to saw off the convict's leg iron. While exploring in the churchyard near the tombstones of his parents, Pip is accosted by an escaped convict. Pip is an orphan living on the Kent marshes with his abusive sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.
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