Great Expectations, Chapter 24: Zusammenfassung

Was geschieht

1. Mr. Pocket explains Pip’s educational aims and earns his trust through his careful, honest teaching.
2. Pip obtains Mr. Jaggers’s approval and twenty pounds to furnish his room at Barnard’s Inn.
3. Wemmick explains Mr. Jaggers’s intimidating professional manner and shows Pip the office staff.
4. Wemmick identifies two casts of executed clients and explains his habit of collecting portable gifts.
5. Wemmick invites Pip to Walworth and urges him to observe Mr. Jaggers’s housekeeper.
6. Pip watches Mr. Jaggers frighten witnesses and challenge the presiding magistrate in a crowded court.

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Wemmick explains that Mr. Jaggers deliberately makes his manner difficult to read. This helps Pip understand the uncertainty and intimidation surrounding his guardian’s work.

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