![]() ![]() ![]() Estella is beautiful but haughty and tells Pip that he is coarse and common. The house has been left as it was on her wedding day and even the old wedding cake is still on the table. Miss Havisham's fiancé jilted her on her wedding day and she still wears her old wedding gown, although she's now elderly and wheel-chair-bound. Pip's pompous Uncle Pumblechook arranges for Pip to go to the house of a wealthy reclusive woman, Miss Havisham, to play with her adopted daughter, Estella. ![]() Shortly afterward, both convicts are recaptured while fighting each other. Returning with these the next morning, Pip discovers a second escaped convict, an enemy of the first one. The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him, as well as a metal file to saw off the convict's leg iron. While exploring in the churchyard near the tombstones of his parents, Pip is accosted by an escaped convict. Pip is an orphan living on the Kent marshes with his abusive sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. ![]()
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