Thursday, February 24, 2011
Great Expectations: Question
One section in particular that I was not able to understand as well as the others was in chapter 4, concerning the scene with Mr. Wopsle, Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, and Mr. Pumblechook. At first, Pip says that, "[m]y sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously; that is to say, Joe and I were going." (21). However, later, the narration implied that the setting was in fact Pip and his guardians' house. Were they actually dining in the church, or did I misunderstand the passage about Joe and Pip going there?
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I believe that the passage is meant to convey that the family are regular attendees at the church, not that they are actually going there. Dinner would appear, from the rest of the book, to be taking place at Pip's residence.
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