What a miserable book! Pip lost everything in the end, and what was so severe his crime that he came to such an end? Dickens treated him worse than a murderer.The worst one was Joe and Biddy not inviting Pip to the wedding? That was obscene. It was gut-wrenching to read through that. It was so wrong. Pip is so much penitent that he cannot see what they did, and they act oblivious to what they had done.To twist the knife further in, Pip gets replaced by another Pip as Joe and Biddy’s son. Pip does not have a home anymore, he does not even have a house of his own; he’s staying with Herbert and Clara and seems he does not want to marry. The last meeting with Estella (both in the original and revised ending) was shallow as heck. Nothing satisfying comes from that meeting.It feels like Pip was abandoned by everybody in the end. And I cannot see what he did that justifies this end. I almost wish somebody rewrote the whole novel.
>>25347922Dickens the romantic is much better than Dickens the realist. And GE proves that.
