In Chapter XVIII of Great
Expectations, one evening while Pip is apprenticed to Joe, a strange
gentleman that Pip recognizes as the supercilious Mr. Jaggers arrives at the Jolly
Bargeman, saying that he is looking for Pip. Later, in the Gargery parlor, Mr. Jaggers
announces to Pip that he has "great expectations," and he communicates to Pip the
conditions under which these expectations come. After the burly lawyer who is to be
Pip's guardian departs, Pip has certain expectations
himself:
1. He expects to be educated. Mr. Jaggers has
mentioned Mr. Matthew Pocket as his prospective tutor. Pip will meet his son first and
then be introduced to Mr. Pocket.
2. Pip expects to become
a gentleman and not have to wear working clothes. Mr. Jaggers provides Pip with twenty
guineas so that he can have some proper clothes made.
3.
As Pip expects to say goodbye to Estella, he also expects that she will be favorably
impressed that he is to become a gentleman in London. Happily, Pip expects that once he
is no longer coarse and common, Estella will approve of him and grow to love
him.
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