Havisham is a cold, bitter old woman after being jilted. Whilst living with the Gargery’s, Pip is sent to pay regular visits to an elderly rich lady, Miss Havisham. Pip’s small act of kindness will have huge repercussions later on in his life. One day, while visiting the graves of his parents and brothers in the local churchyard, Pip meets an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch Although frightened by Magwitch, Pip is able to help him with food, a file to escape his chains, and keeps quiet about his presence. Our protagonist is Pip, an orphan boy adopted by his abusive older sister and her kind husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery who live on the Kent marshes. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.

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