Great Expectations

(Chapters 20-31) What are the details and atmosphere of the Pocket household?

(Chapters 20-31) What are the details and atmosphere of the Pocket household?

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The Pocket household turns out to be a comical jumble of children, nurses, and boarders, all held together loosely under Matthew Pocket's weary gaze. Mrs. Pocket had been raised with high expectations herself and brought up to be "highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless." She seems to have little idea of child rearing, leaving the young ones in the hands of two nurses. Pip observes the chaos over a meal.

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