Charles Dickens is both famous and notorious for using his writings as a way to cathartically express the rough upbringing he had, and the pressures he had to endure earlier in his life when his parents (whom indeed had great expectations for him) all of a sudden failed him, and ended up basically ruining his childhood by making all sorts of bad choices for the family unit.
Dickens did write the novel as an outlet. He was already growing tired of his married life, of his family, and still he was holding grudges from having his childhood spent in a forge (or work house) when he was a teenager and wanted to be something special. All because of his parents' inability to maintain a budget and lose all they have. Hence, throughout his entire life, Dickens has tried to vent out his early frustrations which, unfortunately, even at the height of his career he was still not able to shake it off.
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