After the fight episode, Pip
starts to think about what happened and the consequences if someone knew about
it. Pip believes that maybe somebody would be waiting for him when he returns
for the first time to "the scene of
the deed of violence", or, even Miss Havisham would take some sort of
personal vengeance. But the incident goes unmentioned during his visit.
For months Pip continues to visit
Miss Havisham pushing her in a wheelchair. "Over and over and over again, we would make these journeys, and sometimes
they would last as long as three hours at a stretch."
In these meetings, Miss Havisham
starts do inquire Pip about his plans for the future. Pip says that he was
going to be apprenticed to Joe. Internally, Pip believes that Miss Havisham is
going to help him, but in fact, what happens is the opposite. "But, she did not; on the contrary, she
seemed to prefer my being ignorant. Neither did she ever give me any money - or
anything but my daily dinner - nor ever stipulate that I should be paid for my
services.”
Because Pip is kind of waiting
for something from Estella, maybe a kiss again, he is not aware of the
intentions of Miss Havisham. Estella starts to drive him crazy, changing her
behavior, and being conducted by Miss Havisham. There is a passage when Miss
Havisham murmurs in Estella's ear "Break
their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!"
Partially because of his elevated
hopes for his own social standing, Pip begins to grow apart from his family,
confiding in Biddy instead of Joe and often feeling ashamed that Joe is
“common.” His sister and Mr. Pumblechook are set aside as well. The first
because of the manners with him and the second for being supportive of the
daily bullying.
"While Pumblechook
himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a
depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged
on a very unremunerative job."
One day, Miss Havisham offers to
help with the papers that would officially make Pip Joe’s apprentice, and Pip
is devastated to realize that she never meant to make him a gentleman.
See you on chapter thirteen.
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