With great excitement, Mrs. Joe returns from shopping with
the pompous Uncle Pumblechook and unwraps herself hastily, throwing her bonnet onto her
back where it catches since the ribbons remain around her neck. She pronounces the name
of Miss Havisham with pomp since Miss Havisham is known
as
an
immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against
robbers, and who lived a secluded
life.
Because Miss Havisham
is rich, Mrs. Joe anticipates that her asking Pumblechook for a boy to come and play is
portentous:
readability="5">...this boy's fortune may be made by his going to
Miss Havisham's....Here, in
Chapter 7 there is foreshadowing that Pip's life at the forge is about to change. In
addition, Dickens demonstrates how social status overrides any eccentricities. For, it
does not matter that Miss Havisham lives alone and has a mansion in decay that is barred
from the outside world. Mrs. Joe is simply excited that Pip is going to go to the house
of a rich woman.
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