title: Great Expectations
description: Book covers for Charles Dicken’s classic novel, “Great Expectations”, are completely outdated. Yet this masterpiece remains timeless. I decided to modernize this piece but still keeping it traditional. The ladder symbolizes Pip’s (the protagonist) struggle to get the girl of his dreams, Estella, by climbing the social ladder. The ladder is crooked to represent what a bittersweet feeling Pip had toward this.