Great Expectations Women Analysis

The Impact of a Woman Imagine for a moment how we live our lives. For most of us, everyday we attend school and an after school activity, go home and do homework, eat dinner, and then get ready for the next day and go to sleep. What if that all changed? One day we wake up and we are in Kenya or Egypt and we have to wake up and hunt for our food every morning. There is no more school other than learning how to survive. No matter what life you are living, there is always at least one person who has a great impact on you. For some people that person may be a parent, but for others it may be a homeless man. We do not have a choice on who comes into our lives, and we have little say on how they impact us. In Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, we get a sense of how people influence people unexpectedly. As Pip grows older the readers can see that there are 3 essential women in Pip’s life. In the beginning of the novel we meet Biddy. She is Pip’s age, and teaches Pip how to read and write. Both Pip and Biddy were brought up by hand. As they grow together, Pip and Biddy become very close friends. Pip has great trust in Biddy and adores her advice. Pip describes Biddy in a very loving way. “She was common, and could not be like Estella — but she was pleasant and wholesome and sweet-tempered” …show more content…
If Pip had not meet them, he would not have learned some of the most valuable life lessons. Pip would have had a drastically different life. The people we meet lead us to certain decisions. If we were raised differently or by different people, we would be so different. The people who influence us the most we may not realize it at first. They deserve to be thanked even if we did not like what they did to us. Imagine life without them. Our life is like a puzzle, and the people in our lives are the pieces. We can not have a complete puzzle with a piece