Chapter 3 was about Pip stealing the food and running to go give it to the convict. He says, "I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window as a pocket kerchief" (Dickens, 14). As Pip is running, he's has all these illusions around him and feels that everyone knows he is stealing the food. This quote uses a metaphor to show how damp and wet the outside was. He compares it to a goblin crying which I don't really understand why. This also shows how much his guilt affects the way he thinks and may influence some of his actions later in the book.
In chapter 4, Pip comes back from delivering the food, and no one realizes that he has taken any. As he walks in, Mrs. Gargery says, "perhaps if i warn't a blacksmith's wife, and a slave with her apron never off, i should have been to hear the carols" (Dickens, 19). Once again she complains about being a blacksmith's wife and hard her life is. Dickens uses this statement many times throughout the book which means it must have some importance.
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