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What are Pip's character traits in Great Expectations?

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Philip Pirrip, or Pip, the main character of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, is a multi-dimensional character.

Pip is:

an orphan
- his parents died, his sister and her husband (Joe) raise him

a dreamer, ambitious
- he always has a dream or goal in mind (an expectation... nudge, nudge)
- even when he realizes a dream, reaches a goal, he sets a new one
- wants to improve himself and to rise in society

brave
- helps the convict in the cemetery when he's still a child
- persistent in his love for Estella

idealist, romantic
- believes in true love
- tends to see things as black and white, good and bad

good at heart, generous
- judges himself harshly
- does "random acts of kindness" helping Magwitch and Herbert
- loves the people who care for him, like Joe
- has a good conscience
- though loses sight of this when he becomes a gentleman

imaginative
- shown in the stories he tells to sister and Mr. Pumblechook about Miss Havisham
in love with Estella, head over heels
- despite the fact that she doesn't love him back
- they have a shared past as abused orphans

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