- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
The Question and Answer section for Great Expectations is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
2) The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes an image of himself as a boy, standing alone and crying in a churchyard near some marshes. Young Pip is staring at the gravestones of his parents, who died soon after...
Pip is the narrator as well as the protagonist of the story.
A. Because he knows the truth
Joe is well aware that Pip's treatment of him is inspired by ambition rather than love. Pip wants to get ahead... to be a gentleman.... Joe brings him down. It matters not that they are family, or that they care about...