Do Pip and Estella End up Together?

However, in both endings Pip and Estella do not get together. In the revised ending, we are told that Pip has “no shadow of another parting from her” but this is not an indication that they get together. ... Pip tells Estella that he still lives abroad. He never married.

Does Estella end up with Pip?

Wilkie Collins, a close friend and author of The Woman in White, objected to the not-happy ending Dickens first wrote for Great Expectations; Estella has remarried and Pip remains single. ... The second ending has generally been published from Dickens's time to our own, so that it is the one which most readers know.

What does Pip realize at the end of Great Expectations?

Pip's realization that he has wasted all his money on himself prompts him into doing something good for someone else, specifically Herbert, especially since his lavish habits had led Herbert “into that expenses he could not afford”(272).

James H. Sterling

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