Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Plot and Narrative Structure

• Victorian Endings: New Life, Old Love in Charles Dickens Great Expectations
• The Original Ending of Great Expectations [as first published in John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens]
• Discussions of the two endings
• Suffering and Anti-aristocratic Feeling in the Original Ending
• Realism versus Desire
• Coming to Consciousness
• The Validity of the Original Ending
• Generic Expectations and the Original Ending
• Closure in the Original Ending
• All the Year Round Installments of Great Expectations and Chapter Numbering in the First Book Publication

Last modified 20 May 2004