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Chapter 1Pip returns home and we meet his sister, Mrs.Joe Gargery, who's raised Pip “by hand.” Mrs.Joe, as she is called, is an abusive guardian who bullies Pip and Joe.Joe, the town blacksmith and Pip's only friend, informs Pip that Mrs.Joe has the tickler, a stick used to beat Pip when he's been bad.Mrs.Joe returns and swats Pip several times.Pip runs to Joe for protection.They sit down to dinner and Pip, although hungry, does not eat so he can sneak food to the convict.Pip snags some food and sneaks into Joe's forge to steal a file.Chapter 3The Gargerys have guests for Christmas: Mr.Wopsle, the church clerk;Uncle Pumblechook, an arrogant corn merchant;and Mr.and Mrs.Hubble.The guests hara Pip about being ungrateful.Mrs.Joe brings Pumblechook some brandy.He drinks it and chokes on it(Pip had replaced the brandy with tar water.).Mrs.Joe fetches the pork pie, which is miing.Pip runs in fear.The door opens and a party of soldiers enter.Chapter 5The Christmas feast ends and Pip is taken to bed, relieved of not being found out and feeling guilty for not telling Joe the truth.Chapter 7Pumblechook escorts Pip to Havisham's house.Mi
Havisham's snooty, beautiful daughter lets him in and insults him.Pip marvels at the dark corridors and Mi Havisham's appearance.She wears a wedding dre and sits in a candle lit room with all the clocks stopped at 8:40.Pip and Estella play cards.Estella insults him the
entire time.Mi Havisham gives Estella permiion to break Pip's heart.
Pip waits in the courtyard for lunch and cries.Estella brings him his lunch and insults him again.Chapter 9Pip, determined to become uncommon, asks Biddy to teach him.Biddy begins immediately.Pip fetches Joe at the Three Jolly Bargemen where Pip meets a strange man who rubs his leg, stirs his drink with a file, and hands Pip two pounds.Chapter 11Pip returns to Havisham's regularly.She requests that Pip return with Joe Gargery so he can be officially apprenticed to him.Chapter 13Pip begins his apprenticeship.He hates it.He stays only out of loyalty and love to Joe.Chapter 15The crime is not solved, although Pip suspects Orlick.Biddy is hired to take care of Mrs.Joe.Mrs.Joe communicates by writing and requests the presence of Orlick.Pip does not know why.Chapter 17Four years into Pip's apprenticeship, he and Joe are
visited by Mr.Jaggers at the Three Jolly Bargemen.Jaggers informs Pip that he is to be educated as a gentleman and shall inherit a large
sum of money.He instructs Pip to come to his office in London the next week and gives Pip money to buy clothes.Chapter 19Pip arrives at Jagger's office in Little Britain.Jaggers arrives followed by clients and wannabe clients.Jaggers informs Pip about his living arrangements at Barnard's Inn.Wemmick, Jaggers' clerk, escorts Pip to his new home.Chapter 21Herbert Pocket, formerly the pale young gentleman, tells Pip the story of Mi Havisham.She was a proud heire.Her half brother wasted his inheritance.The two hated each other.Mi Havisham got engaged and received money from Mi Havisham.Havisham's fiancee encouraged her to buy the brewery from her half brother for an outrageous price.Matthew Pocket tried to persuade Mi Havisham to be careful.She disowned him.Mi Havisham received a letter at 8:40, the morning of her wedding, at which time the clocks remain.Chapter 23Wemmick invites Pip over for dinner and mentions Jagger's housekeeper as being a tamed beast.Chapter 25Jaggers invites Pip and his fellow students for dinner.Jaggers admires Bentley Drummle, whom Pip hates.Chapter 27Pip resolves to go to his town and stay at Joe's so he can visit Estella.He rationalizes and stays at the Blue Boar without even seeing Joe.On the same coach as Pip are two convicts, one of which gave Pip two 1-pound notes years ago at the Three Jolly Bargemen.Pip discovers the two notes were a gift from the first convict he met on the marshes as a child.Chapter 29-Pip visits Ms.Havisham and Estella.They go through the
same exercise that Pip did as a child.Ms.Havisham asks Pip all sorts of questions regarding Estella's beauty.Ms.Havisham encourages Pip
to love Estella.As a result, Pip refuses to visit Joe because Estella wouldn't approve of him.Chapter 30Pip receives a letter from Estella asking him to meet her the next day.Chapter 32Pip returns, somewhat despondent after seeing the prison, and greets Estella, who treats Pip with disdain.Estella leads Pip to believe that there is an “arrangement” for the two.Chapter 34Despite the lack of affection for his sister, Pip is emotional at her funeral.Pip vows to visit more often.Biddy is skeptical.Pip leaves, somewhat irritated by Biddy, but in retrospect acknowledging her wisdom.Chapter 36Pip decides to help Herbert establish his busine.Wemmick makes the arrangements.Chapter 38Pip's benefactor arrives.It is not Mi Havisham as he supposed.It is the convict he met as a young boy on the marshes.Pip is devastated by the news.Despite his shock, Pip feels obligated to help the convict, Abel Magwitch or Provis, who will be hanged if discovered.Chapter 40Herbert returns.The two devise a plan to get Magwitch out of the country.Pip decides to no longer take his money.Chapter 42Pip travels to Mi Havisham's to see Estella.He encounters Bentley Drummle at the Blue Boar.Chapter 44Pip meets Wemick who has learned that Compeyson is pursuing Magwitch, who is staying at Clara's house.Chapter 46Pip's debts pile up as he refuses to spend Magwitch's money.Pip and Herbert await a signal from Wemmick to transport Magwitch down river.In an effort to forget his problems, Pip goes to the theater.Mr.Wopsle notifies Pip that Compeyson was behind him during the performance.Chapter 48Pip visits Mi Havisham who apologizes to Pip.Pip wanders through the garden one last time.He returns as he sees Mi Havisham light herself on fire.Pip burns his hands saving her.Mi Havisham becomes an invalid.Chapter 50Pip confronts Jaggers about Estella's parentage.He admits Molly is Estella's mother but had not realized Magwitch was the father.Chapter 52Orlick meets Pip on the marshes, ties him up, confees he murdered Pip's sister, admits an aociation with Compeyson, and accuses Pip of harming him.Just as Orlick is about to murder Pip, his friends rush in and save him.Chapter 54Pip remains loyal to Magwitch even though the state has taken everything, including Pip's money.Chapter 56After Magwitch's death, Pip becomes ill.Men come to arrest him for unpaid debts.Joe nurses Pip back to health and pays his debts.Pip learns that Joe knows how to read and write, of Havisham's death, and that Orlick has been jailed for robbing Pumblechook. Chapter 58Pip returns from Cairo eleven years later and marries
Estella, who's husband had treated her poorly and has died.
