Maura Kelly at OUPblog, at the Oxford University Press site, has an excellent post about the timeless themes and characters of Great Expectations and how people everywhere are able to relate to and learn from them. Among other things, she contrasts Pip's growth as a character with the resentfulness and lack of growth of Elliot Rodger, the UCSB killer.
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