Great Expectations, Chapter 36 — streszczenie

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1. As their debts grow, Pip and Herbert expect Pip’s twenty-first birthday to bring information about his expectations.
2. Jaggers gives Pip five hundred pounds and sets his annual allowance at that amount, payable in quarterly installments.
3. Jaggers refuses further information about the benefactor, while Pip interprets his silence through his assumptions about Miss Havisham and Estella.
4. Pip asks Wemmick about financing a friend’s business, but Wemmick strongly discourages the idea in his official capacity.
5. Wemmick invites Pip to seek his private views at Walworth, and Jaggers joins Pip and Herbert for a dispiriting dinner.

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The distinction gives Pip hope that Wemmick’s private advice differs from his cold rejection at work. It also contrasts Wemmick’s divided life with Jaggers’s persistent reserve.

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