| Pip is an orphan who lives with his fearsome aunt anmd kindly uncle Joe the blacksmith, who is good to Pip while his aunt is a terrifying person. Pip lives in a house on the moors where he meets the ecaped prisone. Pip feels fear and also pity and smuggles some food to him. Later Pip is invited to the home of Miss Havishem who keeps her home like a museum due to a frustrated love affair. Her wedding dress in inhabited by spiders.
Suddenly, while at Miss Havisham's house, he meets Estella, a young lady about his own age. She uses all her wiles to get Pip interested but then becomes aloof. He feels alternately attracted and rejected by her. He feels the pain of unrequited love. The story moves on with Pip going to London to seek his fortune. His is growing up. He makes friends with men about his own age. The title of the Great Expectation is with him and he believes (quite wrongly as it transpires) that he will inherit a fortune from Miss Havisham. | ||
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Plot & Themes Time/era of story - 1600-1899 Romance/Romance Problems Yes Lover is Main Character Gender - Male Age: - a kid Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: Has magical powers? Yes How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 () Europe Yes Misc setting Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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