In every novel the ending is very important to the reader. The last chapter of the novel can live up to your expectations for the book or let you down. One example of a last chapter in a book that can either satisfy you or let you down is the novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. The reader can either be happy that Pip and Estella finally joined together or after all you see Pip go through his whole life to achieve his great expectations and then at the end get let down.
             Through out the novel you see how Estella treats Pip as some boy and never really showing how much she cares for him. When they were both little and Pip was chosen to come play at Miss Havisham, Estella was the type to be mean but that showed she cared. Estella showed she cared when she watched Pip and the young boy fight in the garden and was happy to see that Pip won. Also she showed she cared when Pip left one day and Estella told him that he could kiss her. Pip fell so much in love with her when he was young and the feeling never left him. It shows how one person can care so much for another while the other does care but never gets to close because she never really knew how to love.
             When Pip starts living in London after becoming rich from a mysterious benefactor he still keeps in touch with Miss. Havisham. Pip always still wondering about Estella and hoping that one-day he will meet up with her again. When Pip finally does he falls even more in love with Estella. Estella being older tells Pip not fall for her since she does not really fall "in love". She doesn't know how to love and knows that Pip can do better. At the end of chapter it was kind of disappointing because I can't believe that Pip would always be there for Estella. She treated him so badly but yet Pip loves her. When Estella says, "And we will continue friends apart" she is still trying to push him away but yet he knows that she re...