In chapters thirty eight and thirty nine, Pip has many realizations about Estella, he realized that Drummel likes Estella, but on the contrary, she does not like him, and Pip also realizes that Estella likes he. Until these two chapters, Pip has always liked Estella and thought of her as an elegant young lady, but knew that he never had a chance with her and that she would never like him. During chapter thirty eight his high hopes for Estella really went down because Drummel got in the way. Drummel is the mean young man that likes Estella. All of his friends and he are hanging out one night and there is a dinner coming up. It is Drummels' turn to invite a girl to it, so he asks Estella. She willingly agrees to go to it. Pip just happens to be there. He sees Estella, while she is alone, and talks to her. It turns out that she does not seem to like Drummel and thinks that Pip is ok. " Do you decieve and entrap him, Estella?" asks Pip. " Yes, and many others - all of them but you..." replies Estella (Page 312.) Estella misleads and traps these other men, because she does not like them. She also hints to Pip that she does not "decieve and entrap" him, signaling that Estella does not mind him, and may even like Pip. This issue causes a few ramifications. First of all, what happens to Drummel? He ends up lonely, and by himself. This is a problem becasue he was the ladies man and now it shows that someone has dumped him. Another problem that Estella causes is what is she going to do with Pip? Is she going do break his heart again, or are they going to be happy together? This would cause a problem becasue if she breaks his heart again, he will get extremely sad and may never trust a girl again.
These realizations might change them, based on what happens in these above situations. For example, if Drummel does not end up with Estella, his reputation of always being a ladies man, might change. Also, Pip might end up with Estella and be happy, but he also might end up with her and not be happy. Estella could very well break his heart again and then he may never trust any woman in the future.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
June,
ReplyDeleteI thought about this differently when reading. You focused on Drummel getting in the way of Estella and Pip but in reality I think it was Ms. Havisham or lack thereof. Pip thought that if Ms. Havisham was his benefactor than she was doing it because she wanted him to have Estella and they could be together. But then this doesn’t happen he realizes dreams aren’t always a reality. Estella has matured in these chapters she realizes that Ms. Havisham has created her we see this when she says, "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the successes, take all the failure; in short, take me.(pg 304)" So once Estella figures this out she changes and becomes more loving and caring. Pip and Estella could be together but Estella respects Ms. Havisham too much to go against her will and be together with pip. Since Ms. Havisham was the one to tell her to break his heart in the beginning of the book. So all in all i think that it wasn’t Drummel that are holding Estella and Pip from being together it is themselves and Ms. Havisham.