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shayshay2
shayshay2
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High School - 9th Grade

In chapter 19 who is Molly?  Give two unusual details about her.

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Posted by shayshay2 on Thursday April 9, 2009 at 7:19 AM and tagged with characters, details, great expectations, summary, themes.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    In "Great Expectations," the reader doesn't meet Molly until chapter 26.  Pip, and some of his friends are eating dinner at the home of Mr. Jaggers.  He has a servant named Molly.  During the dinner Jaggers insists that Molly show his guests her wrists.  Molly begs Jaggers not to make her show her wrists but when he insists she relents and the guests observe that the wrists are very badly scarred.

    "Jaggers' maid who serves dinner to Pip has strange scars on her wrists, as though she were once shackled. Indeed, she has known hard times before Jaggers has "tamed her," and Jaggers openly refers to her "gypsy blood."

    Later in the book we learn that Molly turns out to be Estella's biological mother who has been raised by Miss Havisham.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/expectations/characters
    http://www.enotes.com/expectations/part-2-chapter-26-27-s...
    http://www.enotes.com/expectations/themes

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Friday April 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM