How effective are the first two chapters of Great expectations as the opening of a novel?

How effective are the first two chapters of Great expectations as the opening of a novel?

At the beginning of a novel a reader needs to find out where and who the main character is and what they are doing there.
You would expect to find description of their surroundings and then what is going to happen in the story.
"Great expectations" does all of these in the first two chapters it firstly tells you Who the main character is and then it goes on to explain were pip is by describing his father’s tombstone,
"I gave Pirrip as my fathers name on authority of his tombstone".
Next it goes on to say how he lives with his sister who has married a blacksmith "Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith", his sister is not known as her name but by her husbands.
He next describes what he thinks his farther looked like by his tombstone, "The shape of the letters on my fathers tombstone, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair".
He also describes...