Recently I have read a book of "Great Expectations". "Great Expectations" is written by Charles Dickens a famous writer in Britain. This novel was one of its Charles Dickens' greatest critical and popular successes. The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip. Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day. Her other ward is the orphaned Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty. Pip, at first cautious, later falls in love with Estella, to his misfortune. When an
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