Wrapping up the book

I feel that the overall message in the novel is to make good choices. Choices that don't only benefit you, but others as well. Friendship is a benefit for two people. Money is something that only benefits one person and friendship is not based on money. At one point in everyones lives, they will have to make a dire choice. In this case, between money and friendship. Everybody wants money, and some prefer money over friendship. Everyone wants money and everyone wants friends, and they can have both as long as they make good choices. However, people are something proven to be more powerful than money, and friends and family should be valued more than finances because of that. This is what I think the overall theme in Great Expectations is.