Great Expectations, Chapter 20: samenvatting

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1. Pip arrives in London and takes a very short coach ride to Mr. Jaggers’s office, where Wemmick tells him to wait.
2. Disturbed by the office, Pip explores Smithfield and the prison area, where an officer shows him places connected with punishment.
3. Pip watches anxious clients seek Jaggers’s help, then sees his guardian dismiss their pleas and insist on payment through Wemmick.
4. Mike presents a possible witness, but Jaggers rejects the visibly disreputable man after inspecting him through the office window.
5. Jaggers explains Pip’s lodging, allowance, and purchasing arrangements, then sends him toward Barnard’s Inn with Wemmick.

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Jaggers refuses to let his clients direct their own cases. The line captures the authority and dependence Pip observes around his guardian.

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