The Only Use of
Great Expectations
in
The Outsiders
- I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us—the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.
p. 15.6Great Expectations = Charles Dickens novel that traces the life of an impoverished young boy with great expectations for self-improvement, who experiences conflict between his desires to be a good person and to advance in social class.
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(Great Expectations as in: the novel) Charles Dickens novel that traces the life of Pip, an impoverished young boy with great expectations for self-improvement, who experiences conflict between his desires to be a good person and to advance in social class (1861)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, Great Expectations may be seen as part of a phrase that doesn't reference the novel.