Great Expectations Custom Alternate Ending - Assignment Example

The next day, I walked with Pip, and we took time to know each other. He showed to me the trail that will lead to “an enchanted house, where a mysterious lady and a snob fairy is” as young Pip referred to. I saw the trail, which earth is covered with dried leaves brought by autumn. It is the trail that is going to the site location of the old house of Ms. Havisham. I was worried at first for the young Pip’s sake for seeing a mysterious lady and a snob fairy in this abandoned place. If he is referring to the beauty of someone when I first saw Estella, perhaps I could understand the boy.

I scanned around the familiar place, no one in sight. I rested my eyes to the abandoned wall that is now covered with moss and crawling ivy. I remembered Estella; she had leaned on that wall when Ms. Havisham had her portrait taken by an artist. Her hair was flowing down and it shone strikingly when a streak of sunlight had escaped from the heavily covered window of near the wall. Ms. Havisham immediately ran to the window to pull the draperies and cover the gap. I have heard that Estella’s husband died two years ago from a freak accident involving a horse and his cruelty in it.

Someone had said that her beauty had somehow taken its toll with age. I have heard also that she went off and secluded herself from everyone, shut herself from the world. In the deepest part inside me, sleeping, desiring to seek for her. Young Pip had wandered around and settled down by the lake. He sat at the bedrock and joyously watched the flock of geese floating in the water. I walked past beyond the garden wall and got surprised when I saw the tip of the what seems to be a tiny brick roof of a tiny house that were covered by tall bushes and low trees, it was positioned where the brewery was positioned before.

Its chimney is fuming faintly with white smoke that is almost unnoticeable. Joe did not tell me anything about this site’s