Question

1. How does the "heavy slab" fall?

A. Pip learns that he is being hunted by debt collectors.
O B. Pip realizes that he has been harsh and ungrateful to Joe.
O C. Miss Havisham realizes that she has raised Estella to be cold-hearted.
O D. Pip learns his benefactor is "his" convict.

Answer 1

D.

Step-by-step explanation:

Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens. The novel centers the life of Pip, the protagonist of the novel.

In Chapter 38, Pip uses the metaphor of falling of heavy slab when he learned that his benefactor is 'his' convict. Throughout to this point of the novel, Pip considered that Miss Havisham is his benefactor because she wants him and Estella to be together. But when he learned that Estella has actually chose Drummel to be her husband and that his real benefactor is the convict, whom he helped years ago in the graveyard, he used the metaphor of falling of heavy slab.

So, the correct answer is option D.