He is raised by his abusive sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, but his dreams of becoming a gentleman are later realized with the help of a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be the prosperous convict Magwitch whom he first meets in a marsh. Magwitch also turns out to be
He is raised by his abusive sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, but his dreams of becoming a gentleman are later realized with the help of a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be the prosperous convict Magwitch whom he first meets in a marsh. Magwitch also turns out to be the father of the love of his life, Estella, who is taught to look down upon him by the eccentric old woman Miss Havisham, who accidentally burns to death. FTP, name this semi-autobiographical character, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
He is raised by his abusive sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, but his dreams of becoming a gentleman are later realized with the help of a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be the prosperous convict Magwitch whom he first meets in a marsh.
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