Great Expectations – Chapters 51-59

Who is Estella’s father? Who does Pip tell? Why?



How did Estella end up being raised by Miss Havisham?



How does Jaggers argue against telling the secret of Estella’s parentage? Does Pip agree? Do you agree?





Why do Jaggers and Wemmick order Mike out of the office?



Where is Herbert’s job going to take him? Why isn’t Pip surprised when Herbert announces that he will be going to “the land of the Arabian nights”?


Who is Startop and what does Herbert ask him to do?



Why does Pip go alone to the sluice-house? What danger does he find there?



How does Herbert save Pip’s life?



Why don’t Herbert and Pip pursue Orlick?



How is the convict caught?


How did Compeyson know where to find the convict?



What happens to Compeyson?



Why does Wemmick take Pip to church?



What happens at the convict’s trail?



What does Pip tell the convict right before the convict dies?




What happens to Pip after the convict dies?



How does Pip learn about Miss Havisham’s will? What does he learn?



What happens to Orlick?



Pip is in trouble with his debtors before he grows ill. Why isn’t he being pursued by them after he recovers?



What does Pip plan to say to Biddy? Why doesn’t he say it?



How does Pip spend the next eleven years after Joe’s wedding?



What has Pip heard about Estella’s married life?



When and where des Pip see Estella again at the end?



How has Estella changed? Will she part again from Pip?



How do you think Pip feels:

When he learns that Miss Havisham has died:



That Orlick is in jail:



That Joe and Biddy have just been married:



When he sees Joe and Biddy’s kids:


When he first sees Estella at Satis, after 11 years have passed?