"And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable." (end of chapter 33, page 272 in my book)
This sentence greatly confused me. As I understood it, Pip was madly in love with Estella and wanted nothing but to be with her. But now he is saying, as he looks at the house Estella is now staying at, that he is only miserable when he is with her, but yet he wants to live with her. Earlier he talked about how he was miserable without her. She was so mean to him when they were younger, but hasn't she changed now? Estella is different now, but I thought Pip still loved her.
Does he love her or dread being with her?
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Ok, so... what I got from this part in the book is that, Pip is never happy with Estella because he knows that she doesn't love him the way that he loves her. And for him that makes him only want her more and makes him even more unhappy. He feels that he should be happy being with her, but deep down he knows that their relationship is just a fantasy, so he can't be happy when he's with her because he knows she doesn't want him the way that he wants her.
ReplyDeleteWhat I believe is hapening is that even though Pip loves Estella, he realized that she would always make him feel awful. In spite of that he loves her, so thats why he is miserable without her and why he wants to marry her.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ariana and Sarah. Pip is lusting after Estella, while knowing that she can never make him truly happy. Theirs is a fantasy relationship with no grouding in reality.
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