Book: Great expectations by Charles dickens
review: it’s all about self improvement Great expectations' moral premise is straightforward: affection, devotion, and conscience are more essential than convivial success, riches, as a supposititious succedaneum status. Dickens develops the theme and depicts pip learning the edification, mostly through the exploration of ideas of ambition and self-improvement—themes that swiftly become both the novel's thematic focus and the psychological mechanism that drives much of pip's development. Pip is an idealist at heart, and whenever he sees anything that is better than what he already has, he is eager to attain it. When he views satis house, he wishes he could be a wealthy gentleman; when he considers his moral failings, he wishes he could be virtuous