When Pip arrives at home, his
sister starts to interrogate him about Miss Havisham's house and everything
linked to the visit. His first attempt was to give short answers to the
questions, what was promptly refused by his sister.
Therefore, after a lot of
pressure coming from his sister and Mr. Pumblechook, demanding for the
narrative of his experience, Pip starts to tell what happened there.
“I felt convinced that if I described Miss Havisham’s as my eyes had
seen it, I should not be understood.”
So, Pip begins to lie. He lies
that Miss Havisham lives in a black, velvet carriage that sits in her mansion.
He lies that he ate cake on gold plates and drunk wine in the carriage. He lies
there were huge dogs eating veal-cutlets in silver baskets.
Also, he lies they played with
flags. In his story, Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham each had different colored
flags, and they waved them around out the windows of the coach—which sounds
like some bizarre piece of performance art.
Pip reaches a limit of lies and
he thinks that it is better to stop, otherwise, his sister and Uncle
Pumblechook could suspect that everything came from his imagination.
Later in the night, in the forge,
Pip confesses to Joe that he made everything up because he's so bummed out
about being "common."
“Towards Joe, and Joe only, I considered myself a young monster...”
Joe advise Pip saying that – “If you can’t get to be uncommon through
going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked.”
Pip goes to bed thinking about
all the differences between Joe's house and Miss Havisham's house, and how so
much had changed that day.
See you on Chapter ten.
