In Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, the main character named Pip suffers from a conflict that confuses good and bad people. He repeatedly ignores the people who love and care for him and chooses instead to care for people who do not care for him. When he makes these choices, Pip feels that he is making the wrong decisions and therefore confuses good and evil and also confuses himself. After Pip first meets Estella, he begins to hate everything he has ever known. He is uncomfortable feeling common in front of Estella and takes his frustration out on Joe, the one who raised him to be common. “I decided to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture cards Jacks, which should be called knaves. I wish Joe had been brought up a little more gentlemanly, and then I should have been too” (65). Here, Pip begins to despise Joe even though Joe only did the best he could. However, Joe continues to be kind to Pip even when Pip makes mistakes. However, he's not the only one Pip hurts. Biddy is another person Pip disrespects. At first Pip is too blinded by his love for Estella to notice that Biddy actually cares for him, and by the time he realizes it, it is too late. Pip confides all his secrets to Biddy and even tells her how dissatisfied he is with her communal lifestyle. “'Biddy,' I said, after binding her to secrecy, 'I want to be a gentleman'” (127). Biddy tries to rationalize Pip's thoughts so that he can see what is truly important, but he just can't see past his desire for Estella. In this way, Pip is already ignoring Biddy and her excellent advice. When Pip receives his fortune from his secret benefactor, his contempt for the two people who love him most becomes much worse. Before hello… middle of the paper… of why his life together and being with Biddy is so much better than the alternative, Estella. However, after all these reasons come to mind, the memories of Satis House and Estella return to him and he finds himself caught up in a conflict between the two. The worst part of Pip's conflict comes from the fact that Estella also warns him of his cruelty. She tells him that she doesn't have the heart to love and that she will never care for him (229). However, it is only at the end of the novel that Pip realizes all his mistakes and his conflict is somewhat resolved. All in all, Pip screws up throughout the novel. He chose to ignore those who loved him and were good to him, viewing them as bad reminders of his past, and instead sought out a heartless girl who could never love him. These internal and external conflicts that Pip experiences due to his decisions shape Charles Dickens' classic novel.