How Does Estella Have An Unrequited Love

In the novel, Great Expectations, Pip and Estella share an unrequited love in which Pip is madly in love with her and attempts to change himself in order to make her joyful. When in reality, Estella is using him and takes this opportunity with Pip to practice breaking his heart. Despite constant belittling and insults from Estella, Pip is still despite for her acceptance and unconditional love. Estella’s negative comments do not discourage Pip from loving her, instead to her dismay, he makes numerous attempts to better himself so that she is no longer ashamed of him. In order to please Estella, he must no longer be a commoner, to become of the same social status of Estella, Pip focuses on education, manners, and dress but most of his attention is directed on
Estella takes Pip’s love for granted and speaks to him like he is not worthy of her, which encourages Pip to become a gentlemen in the hopes of earning his love.
Pip thought nothing of his commoner status until he met Estella, she treats Pip with insignificance and deliberately humiliates him, but that does not prevent him from falling in love with her. Her constant harassment and decry of his existence has only shown him what he needs to adjust about himself. Estella speaks about him as if he is worthless and she could not show any less interest about his feelings, she harasses him about his way of dress, working status and education, for example, "he calls the knaves, jacks, this boy. And what coarse hands he has; And what thick boots" (63). By this, she is acting like she is superior to him and is judging the quality of his boots because he is poor and dirt on his hands signifies that