What's the Story?

Why did Charles Dickens write the novel (Great Expectations) you're reading/reviewing?

Great Expectations is somewhat like an epitome to people's hopes and expectations. We've been there and realized it's not going to happen. This happens to Pip many times before the thought of loneliness and justification penetrates his mindset. Dickens sets forth with how one character such as Estella treats Pip, with every encounter calling him 'boy.' Repetition throughout the story with the word 'boy' evenly reminds Pip how small the world can think and how one character can shutdown those expectations at the sight of speech than true appearance. You could say that physical appearance, their phenotype, is a fallacy within itself. Dickens wants the reader to reveal the true inner person of every individual you might encounter, so the same goes with Pip's experiences. Aside from people's looks, colloquialism is also a big thing. There's so much to learn and distinguish from folksy speech. Local language, depending on the place Pip visits, is the thing that gets Pip to realize that the world he lives in isn't secluded as much as thinks so. Great Expectations as a whole can be seen as ambiguous for certain events of life. As innocent as we may be, we can't abandon a request with strangers and there's a certain urge to know more. Even though it may be forceful, the presence of learning one's lives makes the readers want to interpret the character's lives and their's as well.