How Does Dickens Present Pip's Relationship With Each Other

As time goes on people encounter new experiences in their life. People may encounter loss or happiness. People will encounter others and create new relationships, and as those people go through life, those people may have to part from those relationships. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the characters create many relationships with each other. The characters go through many changes by parting with each other. Pip experiences a parting when he leaves to go to London. When Pip is about to leave he says goodbye to his friends, and then he leaves. “I was better after I had cried than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle” (Dickens 79). Pip is sad now that he realizes he was ungrateful to the friends, who had helped him so much. Pip becomes more grateful to his friends. After leaving them his attitude changes towards his friends as he now knows what his friends have done for him and is sad because he did not do anything to show his gratitude to them. When pip leaves his friends, he is changed by their parting.

Pip has gone over to Miss Havishams’s house, and whiles he is there he sees Estella. Estella tells pip she is going to marry Drummle of her own choosing. Pip does not like Drummle and does not want Estella to marry him. Estella tells Pip that he will forget about her. Pip in return says he will never forget about her because she has always been with him and she will continue trough his thoughts. Then Pip kisses Estella’s hand and then leaves (Dickens 160-161). Pip is gone from Estella and now knows that everything will not be perfect and he will not receive everything that he wants. Pip was expecting to be with Estella and having no worry with his life. Pip is changed because though he may have come into good fortune, he will have challenges and difficulties unlike what he was expecting. Through his parting with Estella, change happens to