Great Expectations Great Expectations, authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens's strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character, Pip, Dickens's demonstrated the compassion he felt for children. Most readers, like myself, are able to associate Pip's experiences with their own. Pip endeavored upon many things that I can see myself …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…Pip did. Dickens's expresses his sorrow he feels for children like Pip but then has Pip turn around and be ungrateful for his great expectations. Mr. Jaggers tells us about them when he says, 'Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is that he has great expectations.' (page 129). Pip just did not realize what he was getting into when he found out about his great expectations.