All that David Copperfield crap

What JD Salinger was trying to say in The opening lines of Catcher in the Rye was, he was going to spare you of the immensely deep and precise details to build up characters and settings found in David Copperfield and other novels by Charles Dickens.   Dickens paints a picture in your head that compared to what Salinger did, it would be like looking at Mona Lisa and comparing it to the Weeping Women.

Great expectation lecture notes

• Could be considered cinderella childhood fantasy
• Pip has to change from effortless life to life of work
• He fantasizes his "parents"
• Believes he is above having a family/being married
• Has no knowledge of being normal 
• Uses other male characters a a father like role model
• Pip is uses other men's personalities and mannerisms as "outfits" he is trying on to find himself
• Magwitch-just trying to survive, animal like, lower class
• Pip fears that he can become magwitch
• Miss Havasham- witch like figure, double sided- adopted Estella, women of means/represents horrible decay, home is untouched since she was left at the alter
• Pip plays begger your neighbor with Estella. Realizes miss Havasham raised Estella to ruin men, pip still falls for her. 
• Many men require trophy like female companions 
• Dickens uses Joe and jaggers as opposites on the moral scale
• Joe is physical strong but doesn't use it, doesn't judge by looks, not monetary successful but happy
• Jaggers is mentally string but doesn't use it, lives by the law, breaks everything down to evidence
• Joe meets mother and child and marries
• Jaggers meets mother and child splits them up. Sells child an uses mother as slave
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