What were Pips Great Expectations in Charles Dickens Great Expectations?
The first stage of Pip’s expectations: Pip, a young orphan, lives a humble existence with his shrewish older sister and her strong but kind husband, Joe Gargery. One day Pip meets Magwitch, an escaped convict, and brings him food and a file after the man threatens his life. This convict is later caught again and sent away.Pip is satisfied with his life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. Pip falls in love with Estella. From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a future working as a blacksmith.After a fight with Joe’s assistant, Orlick, Mrs. Joe is found in the kitchen after a terrible attack.This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, wh
