Fluctuation in Pip

The Fascinating Fluctuation in Pip
In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, a young man by the name of Pip experiences “great opportunities” provided by a secret benefactor. Being an orphan since infancy, his driving ambition is to better his station in life; unfortunately, Pip rejects his closest friends in order to achieve his social goals, and it is only after much heartbreak and disappointment that he realizes that good friends are far more valuable than wealth. Through his “great expectations”, Pip evolves from a frightful innocence, to the snobbery of being a gentleman, and finally to a good, solid man.
The book starts out with Pip living as a regular, common boy. Raised by his sister “by hand” and he now lives with her and her husband. As of now, Pip is not a known boy throughout the area, or a strong, strict object of power, but a mere surviving existence. Therefore, he has a soft, regulating personality, unlike a confident, bold personality of a busin...