re out who it is. He is going to be brought up as a gentleman. Pip buys some new clothes and says goodbye to Miss Havisham and leaves for London. Pip later finds out that his expectations are from the criminal Mr. Magwich and not from Miss Havisham like he had at first thought. Mr. Magwich wanted to thank Pip for the help a long time ago. He had gotten rich from sheep-farming and then devoted all his wealth to Pip. Pip also finds out that Magwich and his partner in crime, Compeyson, were tried jointly but Compeyson was let off with a seven-year sentence because he looked like a gentleman and had a refined speech. Magwich received a fourteen-year sentence for the same crime. Pip also discovers that Magwich is Estellas father and that her mother is a murderer.Later in the story Pip is seriously ill, he realizes that since he became a gentleman he has viewed Joe poorly, and has been ashamed of him in public. His Great Expectations have done him no good, he is glad to be rid of them. Dickens shows his ideas about his characters, the folly of pretended gentility, Pip trying to be better then Joe, the impossibility of manipulating a human being into becoming a different personality for ones own pleasure. Miss Havisham tries to manipulate Pip into falling in love with Estella just so that her coldnessll hurt him. The ease with which wealth can corrupt, and the essential goodness of simplicity that we see in Joe. Also evident are Dickens ideas about a respectable middle class. .. The important thing is that people like the Cheerybles and Pickwick represent a stage of capitalist development in which the capitalist is normally an active member of a fairly small firm -- that is also what Nicholas [in Nicholas Nickleby], Pip and Arthur Clennam {in Little Dorrit] becomea man whose work bears a relation to his income similar to that of professional people to theirs. Such people as this (together with the professional) were the basis of the respecta...
