Great Expectations is the story of Pip, a restless young boy from the lower classes. He comes into possession of a fortune, founds a host of romantic aspirations upon it at the cost of becoming a snob and comes to be disappointed both romantically and socially. Finally, with a more mature knowledge of himself and the world, Pip works out his, regeneration. In Great Expectations, Dickens' particular view of things is expressed with a concreteness and symbolic intensity. Perhaps the restrictions of shorter length and of weekly rather than monthly publication led Dickens to present his story more in symbolic than in discursive form. The result is not a narrowing and rarefying in meaning, but rather a large increase in intensity and complexity.