I think it is fair to state that towards the end of the
book we see a changed Pip who has learned the danger of having any kind of
"expectations." At the end of this excellent novel he is a man who seems very happy to
work to make his living and who is content with the middle-class position he occupies in
society. He has changed dramatically from the young upstart who, on receiving his great
expectations, expected and anticipated so much in the world. However, if we look at the
final chapter of this novel, we can argue that there is one expectation that Pip states.
Examine the final paragraph of the story:
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the
ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge,
so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light
they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from
her.
Thus we can see that one
expectation that Pip states is his expectation that he and Estella, finally, after all
they have been through, will end up together and get their happily-ever-after ending
after all.
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