<Li> Mrs Joe Gargery, Pip's hot - tempered adult sister, Georgiana Maria, called Mrs Joe, 20 years older than Pip . She brings him up after their parents' death . She does the work of the household but too often loses her temper . Orlick, her husband's journeyman, attacks her, and she is left disabled until her death . </Li> <Li> Mr Pumblechook, Joe Gargery's uncle, an officious bachelor and corn merchant . While not knowing how to deal with a growing boy, he tells Mrs Joe, as she is known, how noble she is to bring up Pip . As the person who first connected Pip to Miss Havisham, he claims to have been the original architect of Pip's expectations . Pip dislikes Mr Pumblechook for his pompous, unfounded claims . When Pip stands up to him in a public place, after those expectations are dashed, Mr Pumblechook turns those listening to the conversation against Pip . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who takes Pip on as a companion for herself and her adopted daughter, Estella . Havisham is a wealthy, eccentric woman who has worn her wedding dress and one shoe since the day that she was jilted at the altar by her fiancé . Her house is unchanged as well . She hates all men, and plots to wreak a twisted revenge by teaching Estella to torment and spurn men, including Pip, who loves her . Miss Havisham is later overcome with remorse for ruining both Estella's and Pip's chances for happiness . Shortly after confessing her plotting to Pip, she dies as the result of being badly burned when her dress accidentally catches fire . </Li> <Li> Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, whom Pip pursues . She is a beautiful girl and grows more beautiful after her schooling in France . Estella represents the life of wealth and culture for which Pip strives . Since Miss Havisham ruined Estella's ability to love, Estella cannot return Pip's passion . She warns Pip of this repeatedly, but he will not or cannot believe her . Estella does not know that she is the daughter of Molly, Jaggers's housekeeper, and the convict Abel Magwitch, given up for adoption to Miss Havisham after her mother was arrested for murder . In marrying Bentley Drummle, she rebels against Miss Havisham's plan to have her break a husband's heart, as Drummle is not interested in Estella but simply in the Havisham fortune . </Li> <Li> Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham's cousin . He is the patriarch of the Pocket family, but unlike her other relatives, he is not greedy for Havisham's wealth . Matthew Pocket tutors young gentlemen, such as Bentley Drummle, Startop, Pip and his own son Herbert . </Li> <Li> Herbert Pocket, the son of Matthew Pocket, who was invited like Pip to visit Miss Havisham, but she did not take to him . Pip first meets Herbert as a "pale young gentleman" who challenges Pip to a fistfight at Miss Havisham's house when both are children . He later becomes Pip's friend, tutoring him in the "gentlemanly" arts and sharing his rooms with Pip in London . </Li> <Li> Cousin Raymond, a relative of Miss Havisham who is only interested in her money . He is married to Camilla . </Li> <Li> Georgiana, a relative of Miss Havisham who is only interested in her money . She is one of the many relatives who hang around Miss Havisham "like flies" for her wealth . </Li> <Li> Sarah Pocket, the sister of Matthew Pocket, relative of Miss Havisham . She is often at Satis House . She is described as "a dry, brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made out of walnut shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers ." </Li> </Ul> <Li> Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who takes Pip on as a companion for herself and her adopted daughter, Estella . Havisham is a wealthy, eccentric woman who has worn her wedding dress and one shoe since the day that she was jilted at the altar by her fiancé . Her house is unchanged as well . She hates all men, and plots to wreak a twisted revenge by teaching Estella to torment and spurn men, including Pip, who loves her . Miss Havisham is later overcome with remorse for ruining both Estella's and Pip's chances for happiness . Shortly after confessing her plotting to Pip, she dies as the result of being badly burned when her dress accidentally catches fire . </Li>

Summary of great expectations by charles dickens in 200 words