“We spent as much money as we could, and got as little out of it as people could choose to give us. We were always more or less unhappy… There was between us a gay fiction that we constantly enjoyed ourselves, and a skeletal truth that we never did” (Dickens 291). Many people believe that having money automatically brings happiness. However, reality has shown that money allows people to choose only one form of misery. Impeccably, Dickens creates a novel that captures this theme perfectly. Great Expectations expresses the theme “money doesn't bring happiness”; Dickens demonstrates this idea perfectly through the eccentric Miss Havisham and the self-centered Mr. Jaggers. Miss Havisham, for starters, shows the classic example of living a lie. Made so obvious, Dickens even wrote his past in his name...