Parting from Pip in London, Joe says, "life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith." Why does Joe explain their separation in metalwork terms?

Magwitch tells Pip, "I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work." What does the line say about Pip's life as a gentleman?

Estella says to Miss Havisham, "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me." What claim is she making?

At their first meeting Estella says of Pip, "And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!" What does pairing hands with boots do to Pip?

Back in England, Magwitch holds Pip's hands and says, "And this is the gentleman what I made! The real genuine One!" How does the line unsettle the novel's idea of a gentleman?

Of buying Herbert his partnership, Pip says it "was the only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations." What does that verdict say about his fortune?

Estella tells Pip the house's "other name was Satis; which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three ... for enough," and that whoever had it "could want nothing else." What is ironic about the name?

At Satis House Miss Havisham's watch and the room's clock have both stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and the bride-cake stands rotting under cobwebs. What does the room argue about the class Pip wants to enter?

Mrs. Joe tells young Pip that "Hulks are prison-ships, right 'cross th' meshes." What does putting the prison-ships in sight of the forge do for the novel?

Visiting London, Joe says, "I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes." What does his forge dress stand for in the novel's argument about class?

After Wemmick walks him through the jail, Pip waits for Estella's coach wishing that "on this day, I might not have had Newgate in my breath and on my clothes." What does the jail's nearness show?

After Estella's remark about his hands, the narrator writes: "I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before." What is the older Pip doing with that clause?

The narrator opens a chapter: "It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify." What is he doing?

Awaiting Joe's visit to London, Pip writes: "If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money." Why does the older Pip report it so bluntly?

Pip dreads Drummle seeing Joe, then writes: "So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise." What does the shift from "I" to "our" do?

Inventing reasons to sleep at the Blue Boar instead of at Joe's, Pip writes: "All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers ..." What is the narration doing to the younger Pip?

Three of these are true of Pip's life in London on his expectations. Which is NOT?

Three of these are true of where Pip's fortune actually came from. Which is NOT?

Three of these are true of Pip's dealings with Herbert. Which is NOT?

Three of these are true of how Pip's story ends after the fortune is gone. Which is NOT?