“We spent as much money as we could and got as little as people could choose to give us. We were always more or less unhappy...There was among us a gay fiction that we were constantly having fun, and a skeletal truth that we never did” (Dickens 291). Many people believe that having money automatically brings happiness. However, reality has proven that money only allows you to choose one form of misery. Perfectly, 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 egocentric Mr. Jaggers. Miss Havisham, to begin with, demonstrates the classic example of lying. Made so obvious that Dickens even wrote his past in his name....