Chapter 38-resumé af Great Expectations

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1. Pip follows Estella through social pleasures but finds their familiar relationship painful, while she warns him against loving her.
2. At Satis House, Miss Havisham eagerly questions Estella about her admirers, and Pip interprets her behavior as revenge against men.
3. Estella resists Miss Havisham's embraces and argues that her upbringing makes the affection her adoptive mother demands impossible.
4. Unable to sleep, Pip watches Miss Havisham wander through the house, carrying a candle and crying softly.
5. Pip challenges Bentley Drummle's claim to know Estella, but her written confirmation forces him to apologize.
6. At a Richmond ball, Estella admits that she deliberately misleads other admirers while excluding Pip from that treatment.

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Estella turns Miss Havisham's accusation back on her. She presents her inability to offer warmth as the result of her upbringing rather than a failure of duty.

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