Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears a old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's"Uncle Pumblechook" (who's actually Joe's uncle) to obtain a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the assistance of an unknown benefactor.