• Herbert rewrites history a little bit and asks Pip to forgive him for beating him up, and Pip decides not to correct him.
• Herbert, like Pip, was brought to Miss Havisham’s all those years ago to serve as a playmate for Estella, but they didn’t exactly get along. In fact, Estella was brought up to make men miserable.
• What? It’s cool; Herbert will fill him in on the juicy gossip at dinner.
• Herbert’s dad is going to be Pip’s new tutor and teacher.
• Herbert’s a nice guy: he’s honest and cheerful, but Pip is pretty sure he’ll never be rich or successful. Still, he’s a gentleman, and he agrees to help teach Pip how to be one, too.
• He even comes up with a new nickname for Pip—Handel, based on “The Harmonious Blacksmith,” by composer Handel.
• Get it? Because Pip was a blacksmith?
• The boys have dinner, and Pip is thrilled beyond belief. There are no grown-ups around, he lives in London, and he has a new BFF. What could be better than this?
• Pip reminds Herbert to tell him Miss Havisham’s story.
• This is Herbert’s account of Miss Havisham:
• She was a spoiled little only child until her dad (a country gentleman who owned a brewery) secretly married a cook. When the cook died, he told Miss Havisham that she had a half-brother named Arthur. Miss Havisham didn’t like this too much.
• Arthur grew up to be a real pain in the rear, and a rebel too. He lived the high life, spending lots of money and creating havoc everywhere he went.
• He and Miss Havisham did not get along very well. In fact, they hated each other’s guts.
• When their dad died, he left Arthur a nice fortune, but he left Miss Havisham the big dough.
• Since Miss Havisham was rich and pretty, she was considered quite a catch.
• But it just so happened that she fell in love with the wrong man. Theseriously wrong man.
• He wasn’t a gentleman at all; he was a rake who convinced her to buy Arthur out of his share of the brewery at a huge cost.
• Herbert’s dad, Mr. Pocket, warned his cousin that her beau was up to no good, but she didn’t believe him. In fact, she ordered him out of the house and out of her life.
• On the day of her wedding to the gentleman, she received a letter from him calling the whole thing off. No one knows what the letter said, but Miss Havisham went a little crazy after reading that letter and fell very ill. She let the mansion go to ruin, and that was that.
• Apparently, Arthur and the gentleman were in cahoots with each other all along and had meant to rob Miss Havisham of her fortune. They also wanted to embarrass her publicly.
• This ends Herbert’s account of Miss Havisham’s story, and, yeah, we feel pretty sorry for her.
• But Herbert doesn’t know much about Estella.
• Like Pip, Herbert assumes that Miss Havisham is Pip’s benefactor and wants Pip to know that he’s totally not jealous.
• Pip asks Herbert what he does for a living, and Herbert tells him he’s a “capitalist—an insurer of ships” (22.70). Herbert’s lifelong dream is to become a shipping merchant and to strike it rich. He dreams of moving to the Far East where life is profitable. As of right now, however, Herbert is waiting for his big break. He works in a counting house, hoping everyday that an opportunity will come his way.
• Pip loves Herbert’s idealistic demeanor, but again he can’t help but think that Herbert will never strike it rich or be successful.
• London is amazing. It’s glittery and delicious and full of all kinds of interesting people and so, so, so much better than the stinky marsh.
• Still, Pip can’t help thinking about Joe.
• The boys decide to go to the Pocket home next in Hammersmith. When Pip arrives, he finds Herbert’s seven brothers and sisters tumbling every which way on the lawn.
• Mrs. Pocket, Herbert’s mother, is reading a book very intensely, and we’re not sure how she manages to find time to read with that many kids, but it’s cool.
• She asks Pip how his mother is doing, and Pip is saved from having to answer when her youngest child is placed on her lap and she can’t figure out how to handle or hold it.
• Ah, this is how she has time to read: her servants, Miss Flopson and Miss Millers, are pretty much like drill sergeants, ordering everyone (including Mrs. Pocket) around.
• Mrs. Pocket is like the Bermuda Triangle of tumbling. Every time one of her children goes near her, they fall. Even the servants trip over her.
• Mrs. Pocket orders naps for everyone (Shmoop too?), and the kiddiewinks are marched inside.
• When Mr. Pocket finally arrives, he looks exactly like what you would expect him to look like: disheveled, grey-haired, and a little discombobulated.

• It’s a five hour carriage ride to London, and when Pip arrives in the big city, the country boy thinks that London is decidedly overrated. Everything is dirty, labyrinthine, and abrasive.
• The carriage driver delivers Pip to Jaggers’ office, but not without mentioning how afraid he is of Jaggers. This perplexes Pip, but it also means that he doesn’t have to tip the driver, since the driver is afraid of what Jaggers might do if he overcharges.
• Pip is greeted by a clerk who lets him know that Mr. Jaggers is in court, but that Pip can wait inside.
• There are lots of people around, all waiting for Mr. Jaggers.
• Pip waits in Mr. Jaggers’ office, which is full of such delightful things as Mr. Jaggers’ chair, which look likes a coffin, and two casts of gruesome, twitchy faces.

wemmick comes to take Pip off. wemmick is a square-looking man with a post-office mouth.He’s a bit gruff and wears lots of “mourning” rings which makes Pip think that he’s lost a lot of friends or family members.Wemmick and Pip arrive at Barnard’s Inn, Pip’s new London digs,

• When Pip has learned about all he can from Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, he begs Biddy to teach him everything she knows. Which she does. Because unlike Estella, Biddy is actually a nice girl/woman.
• He also tries to teach Joe everything that he learns in a way of helping Joe become more educated, and, thus, more worthy of Pip’s company. How nice.
• Pip and Joe go to the old Battery on the marshes for their lessons on Sundays, but Joe isn’t the most attentive student.
• Pip, too, spends most of his time looking at the sails on the horizon and dreaming of Estella and Satis House.
• One Sunday, when Pip and Joe are hanging out at the battery, Pip asks Joe if he can take half a day off of work so that he can go visit Miss Havisham.
• Joe doesn’t think this is a good idea. He remembers Miss Havisham’s last words warning Joe never to ask for more money than she’s already given. Joe is worried that if Pip visits her, she will feel like he’s returned to butter her up for more dough.
• After they go back and forth, Joe finally agrees to give Pip a half day.
• Pip isn’t the only one at the smithy. Joe also employs a burly, gruff looking man named Orlick. Orlick hits things with his hammer in the smithy (wait, isn’t the point of a smithy…?) and he’s not too friendly.
• When Orlick catches wind that Pip gets to take half a day off of work, Orlick has a conniption, extolling the inherent injustice of giving only one employee such a privilege.
• Joe is befuddled, but then decides to give everybody a holiday in order to make everybody happy.
• Mrs. Joe, however, overhears this ruling and bursts in upon the scene yelling and shouting at Joe for being such a fool as to let his employees walk all over him.
• She calls Orlick names, so Orlick calls Mrs. Joe names and threatens her with violence.
• Joe finally has to challenge Orlick to a fight to satisfy Mrs. Joe’s notions of honor, and he knocks Orlick down faster than you can say “smithy.”
• We’re guessing that the village blacksmith would win most fights.
• Mrs. Joe faints, and Orlick slouches away with a bloody nose.
• When Pip arrives at Miss Havisham’s, Sarah Pocket almost refuses to let him in.
• Miss Havisham tells him she won’t give any more money, but Pip assures her he’s just come to say hi and thanks.
• Miss Havisham catches Pip looking around the room for signs of Estella. Oh, ho ho! Sorry, dude. Estella is in France learning to be a beautiful, educated woman way out of his reach.
• As Pip is ejected onto the street, he feels even worse than he did before. We could have called that one, Pip.
• He walks around the main street of town, looking at all of the shop windows and thinking about what he’d buy for himself if he were a gentleman.
• Pip runs into Mr. Wopsle, who has just come out of the bookstore with a copy of The Tragedy of George Barnwell, a play. He invites Pip to come over to Mr. Pumblechook’s house to read the play aloud. Fun times!
• Under normal circumstances, Pip would never, ever hang out with Pumblechook, but since he’s feeling so sad, he decides to accept the invitation.
• The play reading doesn’t end until 9:30 at night. He and Mr. Wopsle walk home together, and on their way they find Orlick crouching on the side of the road. It’s a really misty night, so they can’t tell what he’s doing.
• Something seems off about the guy, but he tells them that convicts have escaped from the prison ships, and that the prison ships are firing cannons to warn the local area.
• The three men walk past the Three Jolly Bargemen, where there’s mass chaos going on because of something that’s happened at Pip’s house.
• And that something is Pip’s sister lying unconscious in the kitchen, hit hard on the back of her head.
  • When Pip has learned about all he can from Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, he begs Biddy to teach him everything she knows. Which she does. Because unlike Estella, Biddy is actually a nice girl/woman.
  • He also tries to teach Joe everything that he learns in a way of helping Joe become more educated, and, thus, more worthy of Pip’s company. How nice.
  • Pip and Joe go to the old Battery on the marshes for their lessons on Sundays, but Joe isn’t the most attentive student.
  • Pip, too, spends most of his time looking at the sails on the horizon and dreaming of Estella and Satis House.
  • One Sunday, when Pip and Joe are hanging out at the battery, Pip asks Joe if he can take half a day off of work so that he can go visit Miss Havisham.
  • Joe doesn’t think this is a good idea. He remembers Miss Havisham’s last words warning Joe never to ask for more money than she’s already given. Joe is worried that if Pip visits her, she will feel like he’s returned to butter her up for more dough.
  • After they go back and forth, Joe finally agrees to give Pip a half day.
  • Pip isn’t the only one at the smithy. Joe also employs a burly, gruff looking man named Orlick. Orlick hits things with his hammer in the smithy (wait, isn’t the point of a smithy…?) and he’s not too friendly.
  • When Orlick catches wind that Pip gets to take half a day off of work, Orlick has a conniption, extolling the inherent injustice of giving only one employee such a privilege.
  • Joe is befuddled, but then decides to give everybody a holiday in order to make everybody happy.
  • Mrs. Joe, however, overhears this ruling and bursts in upon the scene yelling and shouting at Joe for being such a fool as to let his employees walk all over him.
  • She calls Orlick names, so Orlick calls Mrs. Joe names and threatens her with violence.
  • Joe finally has to challenge Orlick to a fight to satisfy Mrs. Joe’s notions of honor, and he knocks Orlick down faster than you can say “smithy.”
  • We’re guessing that the village blacksmith would win most fights.
  • Mrs. Joe faints, and Orlick slouches away with a bloody nose.
  • When Pip arrives at Miss Havisham’s, Sarah Pocket almost refuses to let him in.
  • Miss Havisham tells him she won’t give any more money, but Pip assures her he’s just come to say hi and thanks.
  • Miss Havisham catches Pip looking around the room for signs of Estella. Oh, ho ho! Sorry, dude. Estella is in France learning to be a beautiful, educated woman way out of his reach.
  • As Pip is ejected onto the street, he feels even worse than he did before. We could have called that one, Pip.
  • He walks around the main street of town, looking at all of the shop windows and thinking about what he’d buy for himself if he were a gentleman.
  • Pip runs into Mr. Wopsle, who has just come out of the bookstore with a copy of The Tragedy of George Barnwell, a play. He invites Pip to come over to Mr. Pumblechook’s house to read the play aloud. Fun times!
  • Under normal circumstances, Pip would never, ever hang out with Pumblechook, but since he’s feeling so sad, he decides to accept the invitation.
  • The play reading doesn’t end until 9:30 at night. He and Mr. Wopsle walk home together, and on their way they find Orlick crouching on the side of the road. It’s a really misty night, so they can’t tell what he’s doing.
  • Something seems off about the guy, but he tells them that convicts have escaped from the prison ships, and that the prison ships are firing cannons to warn the local area.
  • The three men walk past the Three Jolly Bargemen, where there’s mass chaos going on because of something that’s happened at Pip’s house.
  • And that something is Pip’s sister lying unconscious in the kitchen, hit hard on the back of her head.
    • When Pip has learned about all he can from Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, he begs Biddy to teach him everything she knows. Which she does. Because unlike Estella, Biddy is actually a nice girl/woman.
    • He also tries to teach Joe everything that he learns in a way of helping Joe become more educated, and, thus, more worthy of Pip’s company. How nice.
    • Pip and Joe go to the old Battery on the marshes for their lessons on Sundays, but Joe isn’t the most attentive student.
    • Pip, too, spends most of his time looking at the sails on the horizon and dreaming of Estella and Satis House.
    • One Sunday, when Pip and Joe are hanging out at the battery, Pip asks Joe if he can take half a day off of work so that he can go visit Miss Havisham.
    • Joe doesn’t think this is a good idea. He remembers Miss Havisham’s last words warning Joe never to ask for more money than she’s already given. Joe is worried that if Pip visits her, she will feel like he’s returned to butter her up for more dough.
    • After they go back and forth, Joe finally agrees to give Pip a half day.
    • Pip isn’t the only one at the smithy. Joe also employs a burly, gruff looking man named Orlick. Orlick hits things with his hammer in the smithy (wait, isn’t the point of a smithy…?) and he’s not too friendly.
    • When Orlick catches wind that Pip gets to take half a day off of work, Orlick has a conniption, extolling the inherent injustice of giving only one employee such a privilege.
    • Joe is befuddled, but then decides to give everybody a holiday in order to make everybody happy.
    • Mrs. Joe, however, overhears this ruling and bursts in upon the scene yelling and shouting at Joe for being such a fool as to let his employees walk all over him.
    • She calls Orlick names, so Orlick calls Mrs. Joe names and threatens her with violence.
    • Joe finally has to challenge Orlick to a fight to satisfy Mrs. Joe’s notions of honor, and he knocks Orlick down faster than you can say “smithy.”
    • We’re guessing that the village blacksmith would win most fights.
    • Mrs. Joe faints, and Orlick slouches away with a bloody nose.
    • When Pip arrives at Miss Havisham’s, Sarah Pocket almost refuses to let him in.
    • Miss Havisham tells him she won’t give any more money, but Pip assures her he’s just come to say hi and thanks.
    • Miss Havisham catches Pip looking around the room for signs of Estella. Oh, ho ho! Sorry, dude. Estella is in France learning to be a beautiful, educated woman way out of his reach.
    • As Pip is ejected onto the street, he feels even worse than he did before. We could have called that one, Pip.
    • He walks around the main street of town, looking at all of the shop windows and thinking about what he’d buy for himself if he were a gentleman.
    • Pip runs into Mr. Wopsle, who has just come out of the bookstore with a copy of The Tragedy of George Barnwell, a play. He invites Pip to come over to Mr. Pumblechook’s house to read the play aloud. Fun times!
    • Under normal circumstances, Pip would never, ever hang out with Pumblechook, but since he’s feeling so sad, he decides to accept the invitation.
    • The play reading doesn’t end until 9:30 at night. He and Mr. Wopsle walk home together, and on their way they find Orlick crouching on the side of the road. It’s a really misty night, so they can’t tell what he’s doing.
    • Something seems off about the guy, but he tells them that convicts have escaped from the prison ships, and that the prison ships are firing cannons to warn the local area.
    • The three men walk past the Three Jolly Bargemen, where there’s mass chaos going on because of something that’s happened at Pip’s house.
    • And that something is Pip’s sister lying unconscious in the kitchen, hit hard on the back of her head.

• Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
• In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
• To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
• Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
• That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
• She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
• (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
• Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
• The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
• She’s also really pretty. This is important.
• They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
• She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
• Someone’s in there.
• It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
• Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
• The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
• The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
• Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
• Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
• Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
• Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
• Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
• Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
• Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
• Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
• They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
• She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
• Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
• Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
• Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
• Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
• They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
• Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
• Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
• He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
• But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
• He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
• He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
• Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
• (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
• But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
• Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
• All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.
  • Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
  • In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
  • To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
  • Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
  • That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
  • She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
  • (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
  • Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
  • The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
  • She’s also really pretty. This is important.
  • They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
  • She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
  • Someone’s in there.
  • It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
  • Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
  • The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
  • The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
  • Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
  • Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
  • Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
  • Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
  • Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
  • Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
  • Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
  • Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
  • They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
  • She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
  • Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
  • Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
  • Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
  • Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
  • They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
  • Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
  • Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
  • He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
  • But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
  • He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
  • He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
  • Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
  • (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
  • But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
  • Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
  • All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.
    • Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
    • In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
    • To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
    • Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
    • That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
    • She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
    • (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
    • Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
    • The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
    • She’s also really pretty. This is important.
    • They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
    • She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
    • Someone’s in there.
    • It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
    • Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
    • The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
    • The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
    • Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
    • Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
    • Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
    • Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
    • Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
    • Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
    • Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
    • Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
    • They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
    • She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
    • Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
    • Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
    • Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
    • Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
    • They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
    • Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
    • Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
    • He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
    • But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
    • He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
    • He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
    • Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
    • (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
    • But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
    • Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
    • All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.
      • Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
      • In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
      • To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
      • Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
      • That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
      • She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
      • (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
      • Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
      • The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
      • She’s also really pretty. This is important.
      • They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
      • She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
      • Someone’s in there.
      • It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
      • Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
      • The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
      • The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
      • Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
      • Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
      • Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
      • Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
      • Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
      • Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
      • Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
      • Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
      • They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
      • She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
      • Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
      • Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
      • Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
      • Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
      • They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
      • Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
      • Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
      • He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
      • But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
      • He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
      • He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
      • Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
      • (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
      • But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
      • Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
      • All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.
        • Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
        • In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
        • To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
        • Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
        • That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
        • She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
        • (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
        • Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
        • The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
        • She’s also really pretty. This is important.
        • They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
        • She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
        • Someone’s in there.
        • It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
        • Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
        • The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
        • The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
        • Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
        • Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
        • Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
        • Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
        • Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
        • Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
        • Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
        • Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
        • They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
        • She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
        • Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
        • Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
        • Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
        • Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
        • They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
        • Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
        • Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
        • He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
        • But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
        • He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
        • He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
        • Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
        • (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
        • But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
        • Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
        • All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.
          • Pip spends the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s in the attic, where the ceiling is like two inches from his eyebrows. Mr. Pumblechook is a seedsman, meaning he sells lots of seedy stuff. He also wears corduroys. A lot of corduroy goes on in the seed store.
          • In the morning, Mr. Pumblechook pours Pip milk with water in it and bread with only a teensy amount of butter.
          • To top it off, Mr. Pumblechook quizzes Pip on his multiplication tables while munching on the equivalent of an Egg McMuffin with bacon.
          • Mr. Pumblechook and Pip walk over to Miss Havisham’s. It’s a big, dismal mansion with lots of bars, gates, and boarded up windows. There’s a vacant brewery too. They ring the bell and wait for someone to unlock the gate.
          • That someone arrives and is kind of cold and snippy. She’s a young girl, and she doesn’t let Mr. Pumblechook inside.
          • She tells Pip that the house has two names: the manor house and Satis House. “Satis” means “enough” in either Greek, Hebrew, or Latin—she’s not quite sure.
          • (Too bad she didn’t have Shmoop to tell her that it’s Latin.)
          • Anyway, the little girl tells Pip that, when it was first built, the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.
          • The little girl is Pip’s age, but she calls Pip, “boy.”
          • She’s also really pretty. This is important.
          • They walk into the dark house, and the girl heads him down a series of cold, dark passages.
          • She tells him to go inside a closed door, and inside he sees a dressing table and the whole room, though dimly lit, looks like a lady’s dressing room.
          • Someone’s in there.
          • It’s the weirdest lady he’s ever seen in his life. She’s old and she’s wearing beautiful clothes. Well, they would be beautiful, if they weren’t so old that they were yellowy-brown.
          • Uh, it’s also a wedding dress, which is SO CREEPY.
          • The lady only has one shoe on, and there’s a tattered veil in her hair. There are jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table, and half-packed trunks of dresses are lying around everywhere.
          • The lady herself is pretty freaky looking, too, kind of a cross between a skeleton and a mummy. She’s got deep sunken eyes, and her hair is all white.
          • Pip realizes that all of the clocks in the room are stopped at exactly twenty minutes to nine.
          • Seriously, if we were Pip we’d be so out of there right now.
          • Instead, Pip stays. Miss Havisham (that’s her name) tells Pip that she has a broken heart and then commands him to play.
          • Uh, how does one play on command? That violates the laws of playing. It’s like anti-play.
          • Pip, showing good sense, feels the same way, and he’s frozen in his tracks.
          • Miss Havisham asks Pip to call for Estella (which we guess is the little girl’s name). He does, but he’s not happy about it.
          • Well, how would you feel if you were forced to yell a name like “Estella” into a dark, cold, empty mansion with a creepy, half-dead lady watching you?
          • Miss Havisham makes Pip and Estella play cards, and Estella rolls her eyes about having to play with a “common” boy.
          • They play the age-old classic, Beggar My Neighbor, and Estella kicks Pip’s butt.
          • She also kicks his little heart around a little, making fun of him for calling “knaves,” “jacks”; and making fun of his coarse hands and thick boots.
          • Pip doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s never doubted his hands, boots, or jacks before. What is going on? Aren’t mid-life crises supposed to happen in the middle of life?
          • Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, and he tells her that he thinks she’s proud, insulting, and pretty. You know, just your average pre-pubescent heartbreaker.
          • Oh, also he’d like to go home. NOW.
          • Miss Havisham tells Pip to come back in six days, and she orders Estella to give him some food.
          • They walk down the pitch-black passages again, and Pip is weirded out by the sunshine outside. He thought for sure it would be dark out there too, you know, like when you go see a movie in the middle of a sunny day and then walk outside.
          • Estella brings him beer, bread, and meat and leaves it on the porch for him as though she were feeding a dog.
          • Naturally, Pip starts to cry, which totally pleases Estella, and then she leaves him outside. Pip has to kick a wall a little bit and twist his hair in order to get his tears and emotions out.
          • He’s never felt so degraded ever, and—instead of dismissing Estella as a stuck-up little brat—he wishes he had nicer clothes and softer hands.
          • But then he drinks some beer and eats some meat, and he feels better.
          • He starts to look around the “garden” and it’s in need of an Extreme Makeover. Everything is dead and withered. (We’re thinking that’s symbolic.)
          • He explores the brewery, too. The weird thing is that everywhere he goes, Estella is there too, but just ahead of him. It’s like she’s following him, but leading him at the same time. She climbs a ladder/stair in the brewery, and it looks like she’s climbing into the sky.
          • Then, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Pip sees something hanging from a rafter at the other end of the brewery. He looks closer, and the thing is a figure of a woman all in white, and the face is of Miss Havisham. Logically, he runs toward the hanging figure.
          • (Shmoop interlude: Do not try this at home. Shmoop endorses the “if you see a white humanlike figure hanging from a rafter, turn and run” policy).
          • But there’s nothing there at all. Spooky!
          • Finally, Estella leads him to the gate and then gets in another jab at him for crying (because she was apparently spying on him) before pushing him out onto the street and locking the door behind him. Charming.
          • All the way home, Pip thinks about his coarse hands and his thick boots.

• Pip feels really guilty now. Not about stealing the food per se, but about not telling his best friend in the world, Joe Gargery, about what he had done.
• He decides it will be best never to tell Joe the full story, because he doesn’t want this hero of his to ever doubt his six-year-old integrity.
• The action over, Joe carries Pip home.
• There’s still Christmas dinner to be had, but Pip is tuckered out.
• Joe relates the whole story, pilfered pork-pie and all.
• Everyone spends some time trying to figure out how the convict could have gotten in to steal the pie, until Mrs. Gargery finally yanks Pip up the stairs and sends him to bed.
• It’s a short chapter.