Thus Pip's specific character is expressed thoroughly. When Pip becomes a gentleman he often looks down on his family background and despises Joe. However at the same time he blames himself for such feelings. When he knows the person who subsidizes him is an escaped criminal, he dislikes him and wants to drive him away. But when he gets to know that the criminal who comes back to visit him at the risk of life is informed against and will be arrested, he guards and protects him so that the criminal can spent his last time happily. The description makes Pip's form not perfect but I feel the character's reality and understand the two kinds of contradictory run into each other fiercely in the course of Pip's growing up.
Furthermore, there are many strong points in the hero's thinking and behavior, which is rare in the modern society. In order not to hurt his friend's self-pride he spends his own money in helping the friend in confidence. Estella forsakes him and go away while he blesses her silently. He forgives Havisham, who breaks love between him and Estella but wakes up to her mistakes at last. He is sincere with friendship and affection. He doesn't be preoccupied with who hurts him. .
I suppose Dickens must love Pip, or maybe he is Pip's model in reality. Because Dickens' personality is as complex as Pip and love experience is not prosperous as Pip. Even more compared with the heroes in his other novels, he gives Pip more sympathy and support. .
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The readability of the "Great Expectations" .
1. "Great Expectations" is the works of Dickens' later period. Having a fund of experience, surely he had a deeper understanding of the surrounding. When Charles was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent, which was a lively, bustling town, full of sailors and soldiers. To the north were the misty, sinister Kent marches with the prison hulks moored off-shore, the setting for Pip's terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the opening chapter of "Great Expectations".