"Pride & Prejudice" vs "The Great Expectation"

Both Charles Dicken's "The Great Expectation" and Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" central theme focuses on marriage and social status.  The protagonists, in both novels, stand low on the social scale, however, they interact with people that have a much higher standing in the social world and are given the opportunity to rise in the social scale.  In "Pride & Prejudice," Elizabeth has frequent confrontations with Darcy, a wealthy gentleman, but she despises him for his pompousness.   As the story goes on, Elizabeth begins to realize that Darcy, is in fact, a honest and kind man, and by the end of the novel, she marries him and they live happily ever after. The plot of "The Great Expectation, " is quite similar.  Pip, the protagonist in the novel, is a low working class boy that is invited to entertain Miss Havisham, a very wealthy widow.  One day, Pip is informed that a benefactor has given him a large fortune, and he believes that his benefactor is Miss Havisham because she is trying to raise him to become worthy enough to marry Estella.  Pip tries extremely hard to become an intellectual. Unlike "Pride & Prejudice," there is a gigantic twist and Pip is shocked to find out that his benefactor is the criminal from the beginning of the story, and that Miss Havisham had no intention of molding Pip to marry Estella.  Pip is heartbroken and finds out that Miss Havisham was simply toying with his heart and shaping Estella to break men's hearts.  Pip begins to face reality and starts to care for Magwitch, his benefactor, forgives Miss Havisham, and accepts that he will not be marrying Estella, since she is already married to another wealthy man.  In the end, Pip meets Estella and Estella's husband is now dead.  The novel ends with the two holding hands and the two never parted from one another again.