How Does Dickens Create Suspense

In Great Expectations there is suspense. Dickens was able to execute an immense amount of details using a wary mood that is about to take place within the story. Dickens indicated in the beginning that Pip was in the graveyard because of the fact that Dickens writes, “my first candies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones" (Dickens 1). The mentioning of the word “tombstones" indicates that Pip was at the cemetery which in fact creates a foreboding and uneasy atmosphere in regards of being in a creepy place by oneself in which case the author’s usage of theme. By placing this setting in the beginning of the first chapter lets the reader have a sense of anticipation in the beginning of story and gives

I felt that I could bear no more, and that I must run away. I released the leg of the table, and ran for my life" (Dickens 22). The way Dickens initially thought out Pip’s thoughts; the characterization serves the use of guilt and fear in which clearly indicates a suspenseful mood. Dickens provides a look at Pip’s convict. When Pip allegedly gives his convict Mrs. Joe's pork pie, the convict's actions were shown, “I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating and the man's. The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction, of somebody's coming to take the pie away. He was altogether too unsettled in his mind over it, to appreciate it comfortably, I thought, or to have anybody to dine with him, without making a chop with his jaws at the visitor. In all of which particulars he was very like the dog” (Dickens