In the novel Great Expectations the author Charles Dickens provides a clear lesson for the reader to understand by writing the novel as a coming-of-age story about the main character Pip. Dickens uses this bildungsroman genre for one of his most famous books in order to define what really matters in life. The novel takes the reader through the many good and bad phases we as humans face on a daily basis to later on demonstrate what not to do, finding one’s place, and coming to peace with one’s mistakes and personality. Specifying all the wrong things Pip does is what Dickens did to point out what a person should not do in order to ‘fit in’ with society. Pip distroughtly says “We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as