Enough House

"'Enough House!' said I: 'that's a curious name, miss.'
'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else. They must have been easily satisfied in those days, I should think.'" (Dickens 75).

This quote adds to the social commentary that Great Expectations, and therefore Dickens, is making. The novel is about the evils of having too many material possessions or money, and especially wanting too much of these things. Dickens seems to think that society was deteriorating into people wanting too much and trying to gain too much too quickly, resulting in disappointing lives for them, like Pip's. This quote shows distinctly this deterioration that he thought was happening; "they must have been easily satisfied in those days," Estella says, showing how people need more and more to be satisfied as time passes.