Today, (March 10, Wednesday) we had a list of questions to answer in class. One of them being something like; Why, at the end of chapter 31, are Pip's anxieties increased instead of settled. So I started thinking about it, and I realized something was funny about chapter 31. Throughout the whole thing Pip is in a bit of a bad mood because he loves Estella and she still treats him like mud. But at the very end (On page 259), he all the sudden becomes mega depressed. it says "Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it."
So my question is; Why did Pip all the sudden get super depressed at the end of chapter 31?
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I think it's due to Pips deep love of Estella,and how he desperatly wants to marry her, yet, despite all his efforts to become a gentleman, he is predicting it will all backfire, and will end up losing his fortune, plus possibly end up marrying someone "sub-par" for example, a person like Clara. I think this is possibly forshadowing somthing soon to occur in the novel sooner or later. He also probably thinks that if he doesn't marry Estella, he will never obtain happiness in this life, which he is deeply wrong about.
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I agree with Josh. I think Dickens is showing how committed Pip is to loving Estella. He has basically put himself in to the mindset that Estella is the key to his own happiness.
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