Explain what Pip is slowly beginning to realize here in Great Expectations “It was fine summer weather again, and as I walked along, the...

This excerpt is from Chapter XXXV of Great
Expectations, and at this point Pip has been living a lavish life, indulging in the
acquisition of material possessions--as Mr. Jaggers has foretold, he has "gone wrong."  Sadly,
Pip has brought Herbert into debt with their splurging because Herbert does not have an income
such as Pip's.  When news arrives of Mrs. Joe's death, Pip returns to the countryside and walks
along reflecting upon his past life at the forge.  With the "blankness of death" of his sister's
murder, Pip experiences a shock of regret that he has not visited the forge much since having
gone to London; consequently, his memories of Tickler soften.

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addition, Pip feels an "indignation against the assailant," Orlick.  He ponders pursuing Orlick
and revenging Mrs. Joe's death, but he does not have enough evidence even though Biddy has told
him that she has witnessed Orlick hiding behind a tree on the night of the murder.  However, Pip
promises Biddy that he will return to the forge more often henceforth, but Biddy reproaches him,
cognizant that he will not do so.  Nonetheless, after this trip to the forge, Pip begins to
assess his dissipated life, aware that he has made a mockery of his "great expectations" just as
the funeral that Trabb and Co. is a mockery of death.  Thus, some of his indignation against
Orlick is a reflection of his indignation at himself and his lack of integrity at this low point
in his life.