Great Expectations is an excellent novel about a young boy and what he is to become. Pip says many things that make the story more interesting and suspenseful.
             The things he thinks and does make the reader sympathize or maybe even relate to his feelings. The characters say many different things about Pip. Pip is to come into great wealth as he has always wished, but will it turn out to be as he had dreamed it? Pip has many decisions to make; will he make the right ones?
             A thing Pip says makes the story more interesting. "I think she's very pretty", said Pip. Without this line, the story would probably not end up the way it does (at least, in Pip's point of view, it would not be the same). If Pip did not mention the things he does, he would not be seen the same way he is now. In some ways Pip is a very confusing character. For example, he says that Estella is very insulting, yet he likes her even after he makes this known. Pip shapes the story for the reader with his words.
             Pip has many thoughts going through his mind. To himself Pip thought, "I had done rather a great thing in making the request". Pip felt this way after asking Joe if he could sleep in his old bedroom. " I did not like the thought of making her cry again". Pip thought this after talking to biddy about the person who wrote the sad news of Mrs. Joe passing on. "She really was a most charming girl", Pip thought this when he first met Clara. Pip feels embarrassed by Joe when Joe comes to London to tell him that Miss Havisham wants to see him. In some cases it is better that Pip does not say exactly what he feels.
             At the beginning of the novel Estella thinks of Pip as a "common laboring boy". This is known when she says "with this boy! Why, he is a common laboring boy?'' The reader also knows Estella doesn't like Pip. She says, "why don't you cry again, you little wretch?...