Great Expectations Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 50 Summary

Chapter 50 Summary

Pip goes home with his left arm very much burned. His right arm is injured but not as much. Herbert comes to his aid and nurses his injuries, steeping his bandage in cool liquid and setting them on repeatedly. Herbert has spoken to Provis. Molly was once his woman and they had a child. Provis is Estella's father, but he does not know that she is alive.

Chapter 50 Analysis

Now the wheel has come to a full circle and we find out that Provis/Magwitch/Campbell is, in deed, Estelle's father. Therefore, in the very first chapter, in the Churchyard, where his family is buried, Pip really discovers, when he meets the convict for the first time, the ties that will bind him to many, many people in his young adulthood. All are interconnected to Provis- Havisham, who adopts his daughter; Jaggers, who defends him and his wife and is Pip's guardian; Estella, his...
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