Great Expectations is a classic, and the tell tale sign is how often its been imitated.
Magwich was the benefactor all along, not Havisham. Then you have the ball-busting angle on it, and the power women have over men, despite the popular notion of it being a man’s world.
Even the Big Lebowski borrowed heavily from it - the old crabby guy in the wheelchair being penniless, but pulling all the strings.
Everybody borrows, but Dickens put the use of names as a clue to the characters true colors on the map.
I still love the name ‘Pumblechoke’. Nobody’s going to top that.
I dressed as Miss Havisham one halloween. Great costume - I actually went to a thrift store and bought an old fashioned wedding dress. Covered it with cobwebs and spiders. Grey makeup and a veil and I was ready to go.