Great Expectations Charles Dickens Significance

work and it was hard to follow at some points. I think maybe he did this because he did not have an exact or clear idea to follow through with in the novel. He incorporates:
The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited wither vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr. Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various low-life henchmen; a beady-eyed country curate who sees more than he should; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of Mr. Ireland’s death and many other things besides…” (Kept)
I am pretty sure that this list of characters is longer than the list that Charles Dickens uses in Great Expectations, and that novel is filled with characters and intricate story lines. It is hard for me …show more content…
to stay interested and invested in the book because there are too many minor characters and Taylor killed the most important character at the beginning of the book who links all of these together, but since this