There in no doubt that Dickens is one of the first writers who portrayed city life in its entirety and dynamics Great Expectations, one of the Dickens` later masterpieces, is different from other melodramatic novels with a hero as a young man from the countryside, who comes to be disillusioned by the metropolis. In Great Expectations, the country is both a underdeveloped, uncivtlized and commnon place and a place where people like Joe and Biddy can live peacefully The narrator`s attitude toward the country is neither contempt nor nostalgia, or rather, both of them. When he depicts the filth of London or its unbearable snobs, he has in mind Joe`s simple dignity as a touchstone against which so called `gentlemanliness` of the city men is judged. However, coming back to his hometown, far from the madding crowd of the city, is not among his options, although he thinks he wants to marry Biddy and live with Joe. He seems to find a kind of equilibrium between the two uncompatible ways of life, definitely not in the way of Wemmick, who divides himself into two different selves. As a novel which depicts both the country and the city, Great Expectations provides an opportunity to put Dickens` attitude toward the city, especially the 19th century London, in a larger context.