This is a summary of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 22 and 23

Chapter 22 : In this chapter we start off with Herbert talking to Pip asking him to forgive him for beating him up and Pip decides not to correct him. We learn that Herbert like Pip when to Miss Havisham to be play with Estella but they didn’t get along. We learn Herbert’s dad is going to be Pip’s new tutor and teacher. Herbert’s a good person he’s honest and cheerful but Pip thinks he’ll never be rich or successful. But he’s a gentleman, and he agrees to help teach Pip how to be one, too. He even comes up with a new nickname for Pip which is Handel.They have dinner, and Pip is thrilled beyond belief. There are no grown-ups around, he lives in London and has a new friend. Pip asked Herbert to tell him about Miss Havisham and he says : She was a spoiled little child (no siblings) until her dad secretly married a cook. When the cook died, he told Miss Havisham that she had a half-brother named Arthur. Miss Havisham didn’t like this . Arthur her brother grew up to annoying. He spent a lot of money and caused a lot of trouble. He and Miss Havisham did not get along .When their dad died, he left Miss Havisham the most money but Arthur still had money. Since Miss Havisham was rich men liked her. She fell in love with a man who wasn’t a gentleman he convinced her to buy Arthur out of his share of the brewery at a huge cost. Herbert’s dad, Mr. Pocket, warned her that her man was up to no good, but she didn’t believe him. She was so angry she kicked him out. On the day of her wedding , she got a letter from him saying he wasn’t going to come.  Miss Havisham went crazy after reading that letter and fell very ill. Its thought that Arthur and the man were working together to take her money but no-one knows and that’s it. Pip asks Herbert what he does for a living, and Herbert tells him he’s a “capitalist Herbert’s dream is to become a shipping merchant and to be rich. He dreams of moving to the Far East where life is profitable. Pip thinks that Herbert will never be rich or be successful. The boys decide to go to the Pocket home next in Hammersmith. When Pip arrives, he finds Herbert’s seven brothers and sisters failing every where Mrs. Pocket, Herbert’s mother, is reading a book but were unsure how she has the time to read. She asks Pip how his mother is doing, and Pip is saved from having to answer when her youngest child is placed on her lap and she can’t figure out how to handle or hold it. Her servants Miss Flopson and Miss Millers the ones who handle the children and who order everyone around Every time one of her children goes near her, they fall. Even the servants trip over her. Mrs. Pocket orders naps for everyone. When Mr. Pocket arrives he looks untidy and grey-haired .

 Chapter 23: In this chapter  Mr. Pocket welcomes Pip warmly, but his wife isn’t so interested we learn that Mrs. Pocket was raised to be decorative and ornamental, which is not really means useless.Pip meets two other young men who’ll be learning at Mr. Pocket’s house  Drummle and Startop . Pip soon learns that Mr.Pockets house is run by its servants Flopson and Millers. We also learn they order Mr.Pocket around We learn Mr. Pocket is a brilliant scholar and he makes a living teaching and writing books.Pip learns from  Mrs. Coiler (the neighbour) that Mrs. Pocket donst like Mr.Pocket having to teach others for money.Pip learns that Drummle’s first name is Bentley and he most likely will become a baron one day. Then its dinner time . Mrs. Pocket wants to hold the baby, but she’s not a good mother , the baby almost slips under the table and then its head smashes on top of the table.While Mrs.Pocket talks to Drummle about her dad the knight, the baby starts to cry. Jane Pocket sneaks over to soothe the baby but Mrs. Pocket yells at her and tells her to go lie down.The baby then starts to play with a nutcracker.