In part 1, Miss Havisam's house serves as a development of expectations for Pip. Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook's comments suggest that Miss Havisham intends to raise him into wealth and high social class. Pip expects to be made into a gentleman and to live like a king someday by means of Miss Havisham. Surely a woman this formal and high in class would be more than set on transforming a poor dirty little boy a gentleman, he thinks. This is the first of Pip's "Great Expectations". Another expectation of his arises when he meets Estella. He believes he has been asked to play because someday he will become married to this proud young girl. When he realizes that the extent of Miss Havisham's generosity is when she helps him with his "apprenticeship papers", he realizes that he will probably never be married to Estella, and he is to be of poor class and to be a blacksmith the rest of his life.
Estella's name is a good revelation of how she is in real life. First of all, just the sound of the name is somewhat pretty and proud, just as she is. When looking at the etymology of the name, it says her name means "star" as if she is a fallen angel and she is better than everyone else on earth. Her descriptions perfectly match this. Pretty, proud, cruel, insulting, and conceited go hand in hand with the descripttion.
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I agree that Miss Havisham helps develope Pip's expectations. It only makes sense to him that she is going to be his benfactor because she has taken great interest in him without much reason for doing so. He believes that he is to become a gentleman and take Estella has his bride. I also agree with how Estella's name matches her perfectly. She is a star. She is beautiful and wealthy, but scornful and brutal when you get to close.
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