When
Magwitch dies, Pip has to deal with the effects of everything that has happened. First of all,
he is in bad health from the burns he sustained with Miss Havisham and the exhaustion from
trying to get Provis out. His financial health is even worse.
At once I put bills up in the windows; for, I was in debt, and had scarcely any money,
and began to be seriously alarmed by the state of my affairs. (ch 57, p. 310)
The next thing that happens is Pip is arrested for one of his
debts. Delirious, Pip languishes in fever until Joe bails him out. Pip tells Joe what has
happened to him, and who his benefactor was. He returns home, and finds that people treat him
differently since he is not rich. For example, the Blue Boar staff do not treat him
well.
Whereas the Boar had cultivated my good opinion with
warm assiduity when I was coming into property, the Boar was exceedingly cool on the subject now
that I was going out of property. (ch 58, p. 318)
Pip
learns that Biddy and Joe are married. He sells everything he has, and takes a job as a clerk
in Clarriker and Co. He does well there for eleven years, during which time Herbert marries
Clara. Joe and Biddy have a son and name him Pip. Pip returns to England, and decides to visit
Satis House.
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