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How is Pip described in Great Expectations?

Pip is kind, immature and ambitious throughout Great Expectations. After Pip becomes orphaned as an infant, he grows up in the family of his sister and her husband. Pip is never at ease with himself, and he decides that a life in privilege would be better for him.



Another question is: What kind of boy was Pip?

Pip is an intelligent boy. He soon realizes that he is not a gentleman in a snobbish English society. Although he disapproves of Estella's arrogance and is attracted to her superficial beauty, he also finds it admirable.

How does Dickens present PIP in this instance? Charles Dickens employs a variety of techniques to make Pip, his main character, vulnerable so that the reader feels sympathetic towards him. Charles Dickens makes Pip vulnerable by having him meet people who treat him badly and leaving him alone in desolate areas at the beginning of the novel.

In this context, who is Pip in the great hopes?

Pip (Great Expectations). Pip, also known as Philip Pirrip, is the protagonist and narrator of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (1861). He is one of the most beloved characters in English literature.

How did PIP lose his fortunes?

Magwitch is sentenced and Pip loses all his fortune. Pip leaves Joe and rushes home to marry Biddy. However, he finds out that Joe and Biddy have already been married. Pip decides that Herbert and he will go to the mercantile trade abroad.