Here’s how young Pip learned that he had great expectations. One day the lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, showed up at the forge, where young Pip lived and worked, and said to Joe the blacksmith, Pip’s adult ...

Great Expectations begins in the place where all expectations come to an end. Little Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, sits shivering in a graveyard, looking at the tombstones of his parents and five ...