After reviewing Matthew's supplemental research on the rigid Victorian class system, we examined how the novel fits into the bildungsroman formula. I reiterated that the novel's structure is a journey of self - discovery toward enlightened values. We then located within the text examples of Pip's character development: he asks nothing for himself from Miss Havisham; he forgives Miss Havisham unconditionally realizing he has engaged in equally unscrupulous actions, and last ,only asks that Miss Havisham try to restore some semblance of humanity to the emotionally thwarted Estella. Matthew raised interesting comments in class discussion about Dickens' use (or overuse)of coincidence as well as about Miss Havisham's motivations for her prolonged drama of victimhood. In that regard, we studied a known quote from the novel discussing how Miss Havisham's vanity of sorrow and penitence became her mania or obsession. We discussed whether her circumstances justified Miss Havisham's actions noting the narcissism inherent in Miss Havisham's ongoing "performance " of rejection art. Hw- r ch 54.