Great Expectations
Throughout the novel Great Expectations, the author Charles Dickens showed Pip’s interactions with many different kinds of characters. Mrs. Havisham, an elderly wealthy woman, had a great effect on him because he saw the way the rich live. Living along with Mrs. Havisham was her adopted daughter, Estella, and through her harsh commentary towards Pip, also had a great impact upon him. The last character who was proven to have influenced Pip was his sister’s husband, Joe Gargery. Through the influence of other characters in the novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens showed the progression of Pip’s growth toward becoming a gentleman.
After seeing the way that Mrs. Havisham lived and acted, Pip had a need to become a gentleman. Mrs. Havisham, although she was an old lady who never left her house, was treated with the utmost respect from all the people around her. Mrs. Havisham had a presence in a room that Pip could not understand or grasp. She ordered him, and others......
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