In my mind, Great expectations vaguely resembles parts of James and the Giant Peach. Both involve young boys living with abusive siblings who get whisked away to happiness and such. While Pip isn't exactly "happy" in his new environment, he is surely better off than he was under the rule of Mrs. Joe, Mr. Pumblechook and the like. Another recurring idea in both stories is that of the boy's "wealth" trying to be usurped by others. In Great Expectations, it is the Pockets who try to procure Pip's wealth and favor with Mrs. Havisham, and in JGP it his (aunts?) who try to take away his peach and sell it at the end of the movie.
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| Jaggers presenting Pip with his Great Expectations |
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| Pip's humble and dismal beginnings |
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| left: Herbert Right: Joe |
Pip's friends and loves also have a relation to the story of James, his Peach, and the quest for his parents. His friends in the peach (bugs and all that jazz) are comparable to Joe, in Pip's early life, and Herbert in the latter. Estella also has a counterpart, said counterpart being James' parents. Both are nigh unobtainable figures in which the protagonist long/lust after, but always just miss them.
I think the part about how the character's wealth was used in both stories was very insightful.
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