Great Expectations pages 176-235 11/22/10

In this section, we read pages 176 through 235. At the beginning of this reading, Pip travels home. He hopes that he will see Estella and apologize to Joe. I think Pip definitely owes Joe an apology because he has treated him quite rudely. He recognizes a few convicts on the plane, but they do not encounter each other. This surprised me. I thought something may have happened between the convicts and Pip, but they didn’t even recognize him. The next day, Pip ventures off to the Satis house. He sees Estella and notices that she has grown into a lovely young woman. Miss Havisham was bothering him and told him to keep on loving Estella. I didn’t think this was right because you shouldn’t be told by someone who you should love.
Orlick is fired the next day from his job with Miss Havisham. He was fired after Pip told Jaggers about his past. Pip then returns to London and isn’t in a good mood. Herbert confesses to Pip that he is in love but is too poor to marry her. I thought it was sad that he can’t marry the woman he is in love with because he is too poor.
In chapter 32, an event happened that sparked my curiosity. Estella sent Pip a note, and she ordered him to meet her at a train station in London. I was wondering why she would need to meet him so suddenly. She makes Pip feel joyful, and after that he thought they were destined to be married. I thought something more out of the ordinary was going to occur, but nothing too exciting happened.
Pip finds that his sister, Mrs. Joe, died. He became quite upset about her death. He returns home once again so he can attend her funeral. Pip tries to fix his relationships with Joe and Biddy. He tells Biddy that he will try to visit more often. I wonder if he will actually try to keep that promise and visit more often.
Towards the end of the reading, Pip has his twenty-first birthday. I did not know that Pip was that old. Pip is quite certain that Miss Havisham is the one that sent him to London and that she intends for Estella and Pip to get married. It seems likely, but I think someone else sent him to London. I think someone quite unexpected sent him to London. In chapter 37, Pip bought Herbert a partnership, but he didn’t tell him that he bought it for him. It is exactly like the situation Pip was in, and I thought that was interesting. That ends the reading for this week.