Major Characters

Question 1

Pip - Philip Pirip

Answer 1

• Narrator of the Novel
• he is an orphan raised by his sister and brother-in-law in rural Kent
• After showing kindness to an escaped convict, he becomes the beneficiary of a great estate.
• He doesn’t want to be common so he separates from his past, unaware that his benefactor is the convict.
• he learns a great lesson about friendship and loyalty, and gives up his “great expectations”

Question 2

Joe Gargery

Answer 2

• A simple and honest blacksmith
• Pip’s Brother in law
• Loves Pip Unconditionally

Question 3

Miss Havisham

Answer 3

• old lady who was long ago jilted on her wedding day.
• she lives in cobwebbed darkness with her adopted daughter Estella

Question 4

Estella

Answer 4

• The beautiful adopted daughter of Miss Havisham
• She is a girl with a very cold heart
• has been brought up to show revenge on men on Miss Havisham’s behalf

Question 5

Magwitch

Answer 5

• An escaped convict
• Unbeknownst to Pip, the convict later
  rewards him by giving him a large amount of money anonymously.
• He comes back into Pip’s life when Pip is an
  adult, revealing himself as the donor