This Is What I Think...

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the published ending is a joke. The entire book is a melancholy look at different aspects of humanity and how people hurt each other constantly. To end the book with even slight hope colors the ending different than the rest of the book. Also, the fact that he only changed the ending because one of his peers told him that he couldn't end the novel that way is stupid. Dickens should have stuck with his original ending.

How believable is it that after everything that has happened, Pip and Estella might finally be together. No, the entire point of the book is that the great expectations that Pip has are all dashed to pieces. He may learn things throughout the course of the book, but the great things that he wanted never came to being. Having the hope of Pip and Estella coming together is a sacreligious ending to a melancholy novel.