Pip as a Sympathetic Character in Great Expectations :: Great Expectations Essays

flash as a Sympathetic Character in Great Expectations   Can you imagine being totally in retire with someone who is completely turned off by you? This is what happens to Pip. Th crudeout the book Estella disregards his feelings. In Great Expectations my sympathy for Pip fluctuates. Pip starts out as a sympathetic character because he is poor, his parents are dead, and he must live under Mrs. Joes strict rules. As the story moves on, my sympathy for Pip decreases in every(prenominal) way except one his relationship with Estella. Ever since their first acquaintance, Pip has thought Estella to be the most beautiful girl alive. He changes when he gets close her. When Mrs. Havisham asks Pip about Estella, he answers with words like proud, pretty, and insulting. Miss Havisham wants Pip to like Estella, and she tells Estella she can break his heart. As the visits to Miss Havishams increase, Pip realizes his feelings for Estella. He a great deal cannot live without her, but she t reats him as a common boy. Pip wants more than anything to become uncommon so Estella might come to like him. He wants her to come back of him as a person and not as an uneducated blacksmith apprentice. Estella begins to realize that Pip has feelings and taunts him by asking if he thinks she is pretty. A significant scene is when Estella questions Pip about herself and she slaps him. Then she teases him more and says why doesnt he cry again. Pip replies, Because Ill never cry for you again, but he knows this is not true and says this was, I suppose, a false declaration as ever was made, for I was inwardly crying for her then, and I know what I know of the pain she caused me afterwards (94). As the deuce characters grow up and mature and as Pip becomes a gentleman, Estella learns of the extent of Pips feelings. She tells Pip she is to be married and says his pain should pass in no time, about a week. Pip then reveals every thought and feeling he has ever had for Estella over the yea rs. The most important parts of his confession are in the beginning of the speech. Pip confesses, . . . you are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.