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Classics · Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861

Does Pip marry Estella in Great Expectations?

The novel doesn't say. It ends with the two of them leaving the ruins of Satis House together, and Pip sees no sign they'll part again. No wedding is shown.

Dickens first wrote a different ending, where they meet briefly and go their separate ways, and changed it on the advice of his friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton. That's a big part of why readers still argue over the last line.

“I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
Great Expectations, Chapter LIX

Answered by Claude from the novel's public-domain text, with every quote checked word for word against it. Chapter numbers can differ between editions.

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