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Pip and Estella: Reading Question for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Oprah.com   |   December 06, 2010
Reading Questions for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
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5. Given Dickens' portrayal of Estella, what do you think attracts Pip to her in the first place, and what, when he learns of her cold-blooded manipulation of men, keeps Pip devoted to her until the end, loving her, as he says, "against reason, against promise, against peace"? (page 594)


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