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Great Expectations tells the story of a young boy nicknamed "Pip" who was born an orphan, but taken in by his sister and brother-in-law.

The theme of the story moralizes love and virtue over monetary value and class. Pip is ashamed of his position as middle-class, a shame caused by the love of his life, Estella Havisham, an orphan taken by a wealthy elderly woman and raised to be an aristocratic breaker of the hearts of men. Pip desperately wants to be a gentleman so that he may win her favor and is eventually blessed with good fortune, although he never wins her over. However, he soon realizes that he had made a mistake in leaving behind the home he was once comfortable with.

When Pip falls into large amounts of debt, his brother-in-law and father figure, Joe, pay it all off. Pip sees that he should not have pushed Joe and his loved ones away when he had received his vast fortune.

Pip later returns to the middle-class working society with his friend Herbert, quite content with his life.

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