Classics · Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861
Who is Pip's benefactor in Great Expectations?
Pip's benefactor is Abel Magwitch, the escaped convict he helped as a child in the marshes. Pip had assumed all along it was Miss Havisham.
Magwitch made his money in New South Wales and sent it through the lawyer Mr. Jaggers, to repay the boy who brought him food. He comes back to London, at the risk of his life, to see what he has made.
“Yes, Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you!”
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