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GREAT EXPECTATIONS THE FAIRY TALE In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, the main character is Philip Pirrip (Pip). Pip is an orphan, living in his sister’s house along with her husband Joe Gargery, the Blacksmith. He lives a poor life but he is happy. Pip starts living a life that very much resembles a fairy tale. Through out the course of the novel, Pip meets characters who appear to be from a fantasy. He meets a reclusive fairy godmother, an ogre-like convict, and a beautiful princess. Upon meeting these characters, he puts himself in the role of the frog that becomes a prince, but towards the end of the novel, he realizes that they are the opposite of what he thought they were. Pip thinks that Miss Havisham is the fairy godmother and his benefactor but by the end of the novel he realizes that she is the evil ogre. According to Pip Miss Havisham is an immensely rich and grim lady who is living in a large house and leads a life of seclusion. She looks like a lady from another world. “In an arm chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see”1. Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there.