Chapter 40- Concealing Magwitch • How does judge Magwitch? • Connection to Joe? • Similarities - Eating habits -Seeing the best in Pip -His inability to be dressed up p. 337 • Why does Magwitch say he will get pleasure out of seeing Pip spend money? – What does Magwitch mean when he apologizes for behaving in a “low” way? What sort of values does he have? P. 332 • How does Jaggers act when Pip arrives? Why does he insist that Pip was told everything by “Provis”? P. 335 • Jaggers advises, “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence” (336). - Why is this quote significant? • Frankenstein reference? P. 339 – What is somewhat backwards about Pip’s perception?

Chapter 41- A plan for Magwitch

• Pip’s feelings about Magwitch (340) • Pip won’t take Magwitch’s money- why? – Is this an admirable decision of Pip’s? • Herbert’s reaction- won’t sit in his chair p. 342 • Herbert’s advice p. 343 Chapter 42- Magwitch’s story

• Childhood – Not a devil- why do people say he is? • – How did they meet? – What is Compeyson like? – Who is Arthur? – Who is the mad lady? • Why did they go to the hulks? – Why does Magwitch detest Compeyson? – What were their sentences?- Why? • Escape- what happened? • “He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him” (352). • ’s name? – Allusion to what? Chapter 43

• “Why should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might be traced to Estella? Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the prison before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which I now reflected on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty, and the returned transport whom I harboured?” (353).

• Standoff with Drummle- “But don't lose your temper. Haven't you lost enough without that?" • Who comes back into the story? • “[I] went out to the memorable old house that it would have been so much the better for me to never have entered, never to have seen” (358). Chapter 44

• What does Pip ask ? • Miss Havisham- her response to Pip p. 360 – Why did she lead him to believe she was the benefactor? • What does Pip ask of her? • What does Estella admit to Pip? • What is his response? Chapter 45 • What is the mood at Hummums? • “Don't go home.” – Where is Pip's home? (Contrast Pip's homelessness with Wemmick's innocent domestic order.) • What information does Wemmick give to Pip? – Why is he so cautious? • Why doesn’t Clara seem to like Pip even though she hasn’t met him? • Note that Wemmick tells Pip to get a hold of the portable property

Chapter 46 • Clara’s house- old Gruffandgrim Mr. Barley – Clara, like Herbert, is another of the novel's luckless children who, despite the harshness of her circumstances, has preserved a pure and loving nature. • What information does Pip give Magwitch? – What does he withhold and why? – How does Pip now view Magwitch? – What is Pip’s major concern now regarding Magwitch? • Pip on Magwitch: “I thought of the first night of his return when our positions were reversed, and when I little supposed my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious at parting from him as it was now” (379). • What is the plan to get Magwitch out of England?