Great Expectations by Charles dickens focuses on the journey of a common boy to portray the correct meaning of being gentlemen. Dickens creates sympathy for Pip in the beginning by portraying him as a poor orphan stuck with his cruel sister. Even though Pip gets a little lost in Volume two, he manages to redeem himself in the end. Sympathy for Pip is created through his relationship with Estella, the prominence of his mistakes as opposed to his accomplishments, and how everybody looked down upon him as a useless contribution to the society. Pip and Estella’s relationship created a major role in creating sympathy for pip. Estella was a bitter girl and often described as someone who isn’t capable of knowing and feeling love as she has “not bestowed her tenderness she had never had any such thing.”(29.75) Even though she might have even not realized it, she knew Pip was a man capable of showing love to her but she wanted a man of power, a gentleman as he “loved her against reason, against promise, peace”. (29.2). But Pip never gave up on Estella and waited even after she was rude to him in London. But it isn’t entirely Estella’s fault she turned out to have “no heart”. Ms. Havisham …show more content…
In this book great expectation, pip is a confused youngster who sets out a goal to change his life around and not be a common boy.as hi desire to be a gentle men was wanted so much he soon realizes being a gentlemen means more than being classified as higher class or how wealthy you are. As dickens makes us feel sympathy for pip because of him growing up with no parents and a heartless sister we learn pip grows to be a kind hearted man. As pip s portrayed as a good man he slowly starts to forget who he was but realized his mistakes before he was portrayed as good again. Through his relationship with Estella, his good personality overlooked by a few mistakes, and how everyone thought their lives could’ve have been the same to better without pip is what creates sympathy for a