How convincing is the ending of Great Expectations? Give reasons for your answer.

How convincing is the ending of Great Expectations? Give reasons for your answer.

Charles Dickens had originally wrote an ending for Great Expectations that is very different from the one that is available to us today. Dickens had decided to change his original ending to the one that we know of because of a suggestion from one of his friends, either Sir Edward D. G. Bulwer Lytton, John Forster or Wilkie Collins, as it is unclear who deserves the credit. The majority of books today contain the new ending but there are a select few who also include the original.

Dickens, about his revised version, writes, “I have put in as pretty a piece of writing as I could, and I have no doubt the story will be more acceptable through the alteration. Upon the whole I think it is for the better.”

The Original Ending

Pip and Estella meet on the streets while Estella reveals that her husband Drummle had died but she had remarried a doctor. They engage in brief but polite small talk while Pip tells her that he is glad that she has ended up with someone good even though it had not been himself. Pip remains single but is delighted in knowing that Estella is now a different person from the cruel and heartless girl that Miss Havisham had raised her to be. The last sentence has Pip saying he could now see that “suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.”.......................................................................................................................

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