Great Expectations: True Goodness In A Person

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realize the importance and value of true goodness. He is brought to London where he was to become a gentleman. But he only finds that life there was even more unsatisfying. He grows deeper in debt, and starts loosing friends because he felt he was better than them. When he visited Pip was actually embarrassed by him, one of the few people who loved him most and cared for him so much when he was a child, and Pip just turned him away. He even did the same to Magwitch, a person who had dedicated his life toward helping. When Magwitch finally revealed to him that he was Pip’s benefactor all Pip had to say was, “Oh, no, no, no… Was there no one else? …Estella, Estella!” (522) All Pip cared about was himself and getting together with Estella.
It was not until the loss of people very close to Pip, Magwitch and Miss. Havisham, that he began to realize that goodness does not come from material possessions, and social standing, but from inside a person. When Pip lost Magwitch, his ...

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