Pleasure Reading: Part 6

Jaggers invited Pip to dinner, where he gave the young man a note from Miss Havisham, that's why Pip visited Miss Havisham.  She felt unbearably guilty for having caused Estella to break his heart. He acted kindly toward her, then went for a walk in the garden. When he looked up at her window and saw her bend over the fire and went up in a column of flame. Pip safed he, but Miss Havisham became an invalid.


When Pirrip returned to London, he got a message from Wemmick, indicating that they should be ready to move Magwitch in two days. But Pip also found an anonymous note threatening “Uncle Provis,” demanding that Pip traveled to the marshes in secret.


The night was dark over the marsh. Pip entered an abandoned stone quarry and suddenly found his candle extinguished; a noose was thrown over his head in the darkness. He was bound tightly, and a gruff voice threatened to kill him if he cried out. Pip saw in the dark, that it was Orlick, a former Joe's worker.


Orlick accused Pip of coming between him and a young woman he fancied, among other things, and declared his intention to have revenge. He also admited to killing Mrs. Joe. Orlick revealed that he had some connection with Compeyson and has solved the mystery of Magwitch. When Orlick was going to kill him, Herbert bursted in with a group of men to save Pip.

On the other day, in the morning, Pip and Herbert prepared to put their plan in motion. Pip and Magwick sailed from Clara's house, and were very silent and cautious. But nevertheless, soon they were found by policemen. Magwitch was sent to the prison.

Jaggers was certain that Magwitch would be found guilty, but Pip remained loyal. He did not worry when he learnt that the state would appropriate Magwitch’s fortune, including Pip’s money. While Magwitch awaited sentencing, Herbert prepared to marry Clara and Wemmick enjoyed a comical wedding to Miss Skiffins. Herbert offered Pip a job, but Pip delayed his answer.

Pip visits Magwitch, who was sick and imprisoned. Soon the old man was found guilty and sentenced to death. But he died earlier due to his serious ill.


After Magwitch’s death, Pip was also arrested for debt and nearly carted away to prison; he was spared only because of his extreme ill health. He experienced wild hallucinations, reliving scenes with Orlick and Miss Havisham and continually seeing Joe’s face. But the last was not a hallucination: Joe had really come, and he nursed Pip through his illness.


As Pip recovers, Joe tells him the news from home: Miss Havisham had died. And Joe had news about himself: Biddy had helped him learn how to read and write.

When Pip arrived at his childhood home, he found Satis House pulled apart in preparation for an auction. When Pip found Biddy and Joe, he was shocked to discover that they had been married. Despite his disappointed expectation of marriage to Biddy, he expressed happiness for them and decided to take the job with Herbert and went to Egypt.

Eleven years later, Pip returned to England. He went to visit Joe and Biddy.

Pip then went to Satis House and found that it was no longer standing. In a silvery mist, Pip walked through the overgrown, ruined garden and thought of Estella. He had heard that she was unhappy with Drummle but that Drummle had recently died. As the moon rised, Pip found Estella wandering through the old garden. They discussed the past fondly; as the mists rise, they leaved the garden hand in hand, Pip believed never to part again.

Pleasure Reading: Part 5

Time had passed, and Pip was twenty-three. One night, during a midnight thunderstorm, he heard heavy footsteps trudging up his stairs. An old sailor entered Pip’s apartment, and Pip treated him nervously and haughtily before recognizing him. It is Pip’s convict, the same man who terrorized him in the cemetery and on the marsh when he was a little boy. Horrified, Pip learned the truth of his situation: the convict went to Australia, where he worked in sheep ranching and earned a huge fortune. Moved by Pip’s kindness to him on the marsh, he arranged to use his wealth to make Pip a gentleman. The convict, not Miss Havisham, was Pip’s secret benefactor.

With a crestfallen heart, Pip heard that the convict was even now on the run from the law, and that if he was caught, he could be put to death. Pip realized that though the convict’s story had plunged him into despair, it was his duty to help his benefactor. He fed him and gave him Herbert’s bed for the night, as Herbert was away.

Since the truth of his fortune was known, he didn't want to use it, but still tried to conceal Abel Magwitch, the convict, with the help of his friends: Herbert, Wemmick, Jaggers. They planned to take Magwitch abroad, where he woull be safe from the police, before parting ways with him.

One day Magwitch told his story to Pip and Herbert. As a young man, he met a gentleman criminal named Compeyson and fell under his power. Compeyson had already driven another accomplice, Arthur, into alcoholism and madness. Arthur was driven to despair by the memory of a wealthy woman he and Compeyson had once victimized. As it turned out, Arthur was Miss Havisham’s half brother; Compeyson was the man who stood her up on their wedding day. So that Magwitch was caught by police instead of Compeyson and Arthur. And also Wagwitch was a father of Estella.



Ashamed that his rise to social prominence wa owed to such a coarse, lowborn man, Pip felt that he must leave Estella forever. After an unpleasant encounter with Drummle, Estella's fiance at the inn, he traveled to Satis House to see Miss Havisham and Estella one final time.

Having returned to London, Pip got a note where Wemmick warned him not to go home. The next day, Pip found Wemmick, who explained that he had learned through Jaggers’s office that Compeyson was pursuing Magwitch. And Herbert had hidden Magwitch at Clara’s house, and Pip went there. Herbert and Pip discussed a plan to sneak Magwitch away on the river, and Pip began to consider staying with his benefactor even after their escape. Pip bought a rowboat, keeping a nervous watch for the dark figure searching for Magwitch.

Pleasure Reading: Part 4

Pip received a note from Estella, ordering him to meet her at a London train station. When He met Estella, he was again troubled by her resemblance to someone he can’t place. She treated Pip arrogantly, but sent him into ecstatic joy when she refered to their “instructions,” which made him feel as though they were destined to be married. He escorted her to the house at which she was staying, he returned to the Pockets’ home.


Soon Pip got a letter carrying the news that Mrs. Joe has died. He returned home at once for the funeral.  Pip says goodbye to them the next morning, truly intending to visit more often, and walks away into the mist.

Pip’s twenty-first birthday finally arrives, meaning that he was an adult and would begin to receive a regular income from his fortune. He felt a great sense of excitement, because he hoped that his entrance into adulthood would cause Jaggers to tell him the identity of his mysterious benefactor. But Mr. Jagger were not going to talk about that. He only told him about his fortune.

Upon receiving his income, Pip decided to help Herbert by buying Herbert’s way into the merchant business. He asked Wemmick for advice. They found a merchant in need of a young partner, and Pip bought Herbert the partnership. Everything was all arranged anonymously, so that Herbert, like Pip, did not know the identity of his benefactor.

Some time later Pip met Estella and they spent a great deal of time together. However, he was not treated as a serious suitor. Shortly thereafter, Pip found out that Drummle was courting Estella. He was broken. The young man imagined his fate as a heavy stone slab hanging over his head, about to fall.

Pleasure Reading: Part 3

Having arrived in London, Pip came to Mr. Jaggers office. And as Jaggers were busy, Wemmick, his clerk, introduced Pip to Herbert, the son of Pip's  tutor. They spent the evening together. And as it turned out, they had met befor at the Miss Havisham's. Herbert told the whole story of Miss Havisham. She had a half-brother, who instigated her fiance to take her money and run away. From that moment the life in Havisham's mansion had stopped, at the time she got a note from her belover. And later, Miss Havisham adopted Estella, but Herbert did not know when or where.

On the other day, Pip went to Matthew Pocket’s house to be tutored and to have dinner. The Pockets’ home was a bustling, chaotic place where the servants run the show. Nevertheless, Pip continued to get to know his fellow students and the Pockets, and also he attended dinners at both Wemmick’s and Jaggers’s. 

Joe came to visit Pip in London. But Pip was very rude and indifferent to Joe, until he told Pip that Estella returned to Satis House and that she wished to see Pip. Hoping to see Estella and to apologize to Joe, Pip traveled home, forced to share a coach with a pair of convicts, one of whom was the mysterious stranger who gave Pip money in the pub. Though this man did not recognize Pip, Pip overheard him explaining that the convict Pip helped that long-ago night in the marshes had asked him to deliver the money to Pip. Pip was so terrified by the recollections that he got off the coach at its first stop within the town limits.

The next day Pip came to visit Miss Havisham and Estella. Pip walked with Estella in the garden, but she treated him with indifference, and he became upset. Pip realized that she reminded him of someone, but he couldn’t place the resemblance. Back inside, he discovered Jaggers there and felt oppressed by the lawyer’s heavy presence. When he returned in low spirits to London, Herbert tried to cheer him up. Also Herbert confessed to Pip that he, too, was in love and, in fact, had a fiancée named Clara, but he was too poor to marry her.

Pleasure Reading: Part 2

Not long after his encounter with the mysterious man in the pub, Pip was taken back to Miss Havisham’s, where he had to present at her birthday. There he met a large, dark man on the stairs, who criticized him. He again played cards with Estella, and then came home.

On the next visit Miss Havisham ordered Pip to bring Joe, when he would come again. Joe was very embarassed and could talk with the lady. Miss Havisham helped  to complete Pip’s apprenticeship papers, so that Pip could become a blacksmith as well. Miss Havisham gave Pip a gift of twenty-five pounds, and Pip and Joe came back home.

Since that Pirrip worked with Joe and another worker in forge. He didn't like that work, as he dreamed to become a gentleman. Pip still tried hard to read and expand his knowledge, and on Sundays, he also tried to teach Joe to read.

One day Pip decided to visit Miss Havisham and asked Joe to give him the day off. Pip visited Miss Havisham and got to know that Estella had been sent abroad. When he arrived home, he learnt that Mrs. Joe had been attacked and was now a brain-damaged invalid. Soon Biddy moved in to help nurse Mrs. Joe.

One evening, at the pub, everyone was listening to Wopsle, who read the story of a murder trial from a newspaper. A stranger began questioning Wopsle about the legal details of the case. Pip recognized him as the large, dark man he met on the stairs at Miss Havisham’s. The stranger introduced himself as the lawyer Jaggers, and he went home with Pip and Joe. There, he explained that Pip would soon inherit a large fortune. His education as a gentleman would begin immediately. He had a week to prepare everything for a trip to London.

Having said goodbye to his village, Pip left for London a week later.