About Great Expectations

Original ending: Pip meets Estella on the streets. Her abusive husband Drummle has died, and she has remarried, to a doctor. Estella and Pip exchange brief pleasantries, after which Pip states while he could not have her in the end, he was at least glad to know she was a different person now, somewhat changed from the cold-hearted girl Miss Havisham had reared her to be. The novel ends with Pip saying he could see that \"suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham\s teaching and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.\" Revised ending: Pip and Estella meet again at the ruins of Satis House: \\"We are friends,\" said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. \"And will continue friends apart,\" said Estella. 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