Chapters 36-37

Pips 21st birthday finally comes he is excited and certain that his becoming an adult he will be told the identity of his benefactor. But jaggers refuses to tell him the identity and he informs him that he will be allowed 500 pounds a year. Pip invites jaggers to come to his birthday dinner, but all he does is depress the environment.

Once pip is given his income he helps Herbert into his merchant business. Wemmick advises pip not to lend his friends money as the can make a habit of coming to him when they are in need of money. But later on he agrees to help pip with Herbert’s business which pip asked wemmicks advice on.
Everything is arranged anonymously so that Herbert like pip does not know the identity of his benefactor.