16. Great Expectations

"There was a gay fiction among us...a rather common one" (275).

As pages of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens continue to turn, a theme is slowly being developed of high hopes and dreams and how the grass is not always as good and green on the other side of the hill. Charles Dickens has Pip admitting that the people he has surrounded himself with pretend to be happy and wear a big smile on their faces, but they are not sincerely pleased with their lives. It is apparent through his words, Charles Dickens has realized that money and material items are not the most important thing in life. Family and friends are the number one priority, for when they are gone, what is really left? Pip comes into money, and then ends up isolating himself. When he walks into trouble, he does not rely on anyone but his good friend, and then he retreats home. The value of money and the value of family are depicted accurately in this book. Charles Dickens explains through his writing that money cannot buy love and that it is impossible to put a price on family.

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Beagle Review. 3 January 2010. March 2008.
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