"Great Expectations" is about a main character, Pip, Who expects great things from life. The book starts when Pip is a young boy who is an orphan, his older sister and her husband, Joe raised him. The family is in the lower social class and Pip has the expectation of growing into a higher social status this after he meets Misses Havisham, this is where he first encounters the eccentric old woman. Dickens describes her …showed first 75 words of 1011 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1011 total…quite died yet." It is also effective how she really does enjoy the cruelty of Estella because Miss Havisham really is completely insane. Dickens has done a good job at portraying a story thought the eyes of a young boy. It is a timeless book, some times the language and ways of thinking differ greatly after some years, but this book still remains enjoyable more than a hundred years later and truly is a classic.