16. Great Expectations (pg. 285): “Once more, the mists were rising as I walked away.”:
Dickens uses mist to foreshadow that fact that “Biddy was quite right;” Pip will probably not come back to visit soon. Mist stops one from having clear sight of things and shows something that is separate. Dickens portrays Pip to now understand the fact that he has been treating Joe and Biddy badly. Dickens shows the reader that Pip is remorseful, but he still will not make good on his promise to visit. Pip is isolated but it is because of his own choices. Furthermore, this quote is near the end of the second stage of Pip’s Expectations. Dickens is drawing a conclusion, and beginning to shift Pip into the third stage of Expectations. By using mist, Dickens also is using imagery to create a dismal tone. Pip does not realize what is ahead of him and what he will learn about the origin of his expectations in the next section. (Dickens used mist was used symbolically at the end of each of the three sections in Great Expectations.)
“Symbolism in Literature.” Scribd. 10 September 2008. 29 December 2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6472314/Symbolism-in-Literature.
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