9.15.2017

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Chapter nine



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.

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