Great Expectations

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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is wordy enough without me bloviating about it. The story is well written, tragic and worth reading. But, sometimes reading Dickens is like admiring a massive painting, one square centimeter at a time.

I had never read the "original" ending before this one. I think that it fit better with the overall flow of the novel as a whole rather than what Dickens saw as a happy ending. The problem is Estella. She remains cold, proud and unbreakable. But then, in the happy ending her suffering breaks her. In the original she is bent, not broken. It just makes more sense that way.