The meaning of the title of this book is almost exactly as it seems, the character had "great expectations" for something that didn't turn out so great. Pip is a poor orphan living with his sister and her husband the blacksmith. He has an encounter with an escaped criminal on Christmas and the help he gives him results in the criminal setting him up with a secret inheritance. One day a lawyer comes and says that he has money coming or "great expectations" and he has to have a different education now that is he is to be a gentelman rather than a blacksmith.
The title also alludes to the idea of great things to come or things that are expected to come but aren't there yet.
Pip's greatest fault is that he counts too much on what he does not already have and values too little that which he does have. He puts his thoughts on something that "might" come rather than what he already has.
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