He doesn't return to the forge until he hears Mrs. Pip wishes Joe were more refined and fears association with him will jeopardize his own social status. Pip spends extravagantly and puts on airs, alienating Joe on Joe's trip to London. Jaggers' clerk, who is stoic and proper in the office and warm and friendly outside of it.
Pip's study mates are Startop and Bentley Drummle, the foul-tempered heir to a baronetcy who becomes Pip's nemesis when he pursues Estella, now an elegant lady. Pip lives part time with Matthew's sweet-tempered son Herbert Pocket in London, where the two become fast friends. Unsympathetic to Joe and Biddy's sadness at losing him, Pip snobbishly parades his new status and goes to study with Matthew Pocket. Pip assumes that this patron is Miss Havisham and that Estella is secretly betrothed to him. Jaggers tells Pip that he has an anonymous patron who wishes Pip to be trained as a gentleman. Biddy moves in to run the household and becomes Pip's confidante, trying in vain to help Pip get over Estella. Joe is brain damaged by the blows of an intruder at the forge, Pip suspects Orlick, Joe's cruel journeyman helper. Pip is apprenticed to Joe and grows increasingly despondent at his low status, seeking to elevate himself through independent study. He grows infatuated with Estella and assesses himself by her standards long after his Satis House visits come to an end. Estella's disdain for Pip's "commonness" inspires Pip's dissatisfaction with life as an apprentice blacksmith.
Miss Havisham was abandoned by her fiancée twenty years prior and seeks revenge on men by raising Estella to mercilessly break hearts. Soon after, Pip is invited to start visiting wealthy Miss Havisham and her snobby adopted daughter, Estella, at Satis House. The convict Pip helped protects Pip by confessing to the theft of the food and file, and Pip's involvement in the theft goes undiscovered. The next day, Pip and Joe see soldiers capture the convict on the marshes where he wrestles bitterly with another escaped convict. Pip steals the food and file from his sister's pantry and Joe's blacksmith shop. On Christmas Eve, Pip encounters an escaped convict in a leg-iron who scares Pip into stealing food and a metal file for him. Joe, and her gentle husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. Pip is an orphan living in southeast England with his foul-tempered sister, Mrs.
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