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The convict, Abel Magwitch, reveals that he is Pip’s mysterious benefactor.

Back in London, a convict who Pip helped escape from prison at the novel’s open, returns. He returns home after his sister’s death and realizes that he’s been neglecting Biddy and Joe. Pip begins to look down on his humble beginnings. Herbert reveals that a conman broke Miss Havisham’s heart, causing her eccentricities. He rooms with Matthew’s son, Herbert, and the two become fast friends. Pip becomes a London gentleman, studying under a tutor named Matthew Pocket. Jaggers reveals that Pip has received a large inheritance from an anonymous benefactor, whom Pip suspects to be Miss Havisham. After an argument, Orlick attacks Pip’s sister, leaving her an invalid.

There, he works with a violent man named Dolge Orlick. When Pip comes of age, he begins working at the forge. Miss Havisham encourages this infatuation, but Estella does not reciprocate. At Miss Havisham’s, Pip falls in love with her adopted daughter, the haughty and beautiful Estella. And he begins visiting the home of a wealthy, eccentric old spinster named Miss Havisham. He seeks further education from Biddy, a relation of his teacher’s. Joe Gargery, and her gentle husband, a blacksmith named Joe Gargery. Pip lives with his tyrannical older sister, Mrs. Great Expectations tells the story of an orphan named Philip Pirrip, or Pip.