In the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens there are two main settings which are London and the marshlands. The two settings and different social classes have an impact on Pips life. Pip life would have been drastically different if he had not had gone to these places.
             Miss Havisham's house and Mr. Jaggers' house have similar atmospheres. Miss Havisham lived "up town as an immemsely rich and grim lady who lived in a large dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion" (Chapter 7 page 744). Miss Havisham's yard "was paved and clean but grass was growing in every crevice. The brewery buildings had a little lane of communication with it; and the wooden gates of that lane stood open, and all the brewery beyond stood open, away to the high enclosing wall; and all was empty and disused" (Chapter 8 Page 745).
             "Mr. Jaggers house is on the south side of that [Gerred] street, rather a stately house of its kind , but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows. He took his key and opened the door, and we all went into a stone hall, bare, gloomy and little used. So up a dark brown staircase into a series of three dark brown rooms on the first floor" (Chapter 26 Page 807).
             Mr. Jaggers house and Miss Havisham's house are not well kept, and are dark, gloomy and dismal. People would not want to be in either one of these two houses. These houses are unwelcoming and uninviting to most anyone.
             Wemmick's house and Miss Havisham's house have different atmospheres. Wemmick's house is a warm and inviting environment and Miss Havisham's house is cold and uninviting.
             Wemmick's house is "a little wooden cottage in the misty of plots of garden, and painted like a battery mounted with guns" (Chapter 25 Page 805). "The smallest house I ever saw with the queerest Gothic windows and Gothic door, almost too small to get in." "The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm abo
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