1.1.2 Summary of Great Expectations 

    The theme of Great Expectations contains family affection, love and friendships. The leading role of this story---Pip is an orphan who is brought up by his elder sister and brother-in-law, Joe, who is a blacksmith. His sister is a shrew who always gets angry with Pip. Fortunately, Joe is very kind to Pip. So he becomes Pip’s best friend when Pip is in childhood. Being the apprentice of Joe and taking over the smithy are Pip’s biggest dream until he meets Estella. Estella is the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham who is a weird but rich woman. Pip is invited to Miss Havisham’s and quickly falls in love with her lovely girl Estella. However, Estella is quite arrogant to Pip. As a result, Pip desires to be a richer gentleman to match Estella from then on. Later he gets a large deal of money from a mysterious benefactor and his dream of being a man of wealth comes true. He believes that money is from Miss Havisham. Then he goes to London and leads a luxurious life there.But he cuts his connection with Joe for his dignity. Unfortunately, before long his dream is broken because his money is not from Miss Havisham, but Magwitch,the person who he helped before. What is worse, Estella gets married to other people. Not until that moment did Pip realize that he did so wrongly. He has a valuable lesson at the cost of losing his great money. He decides to re-program himself. He helps Magwitch to escape chasing and returns to Joe to apologize. After that he return to lead his original but real life. He learns Law by himself and becomes a lawyer. Besides, finally Estella marries him. He has a great expectation again. 

1.2 Brief Introduction of the Spatial Narrative 

    The Spatial Narrative, semantically is the clue and order of stories.(张世君,1999) In other words, the author creates several spatial scenes with words. What is more, these scenes are not combined at random, but arranged orderly to highlight the theme of stories. 

    As Wu Xiaogang said, there are two types of spatial narrative. One is the subject space which is arranged to represent the characteristics of roles and it needs to transfer the spaces as the story processes.(吴效刚, 2000) The other is psychological space which is connected to the psychological consciousness activities of characters. It does not have the chronological order but put these intentions, suggestions, symbolization and associations outside of the narrative process to construct as a whole. Readers a re needed to read stories repeatedly and try to remember those points to reconstruct the narrative spaces.