In the first phase of Pip’s life he desires wealth, education, and a better social life. He mostly wants to impress Estella. Pip slowly becomes superficial. He is only interested in a girl’s appearance “…she had said I was common, and that I knew I was common, and that I wished I was not common, and that the lies come of it somehow, though I didn’t know how.” (69) Pip is blinded by Estella’s beauty and doesn’t focus on what is really important in a person. Later in Pip’s life, he meets people from both hig

Later in the second phase, Pip starts to feeling as though his lifestyle has been a detrimental influence on Herbert. He decides to help Herbert by purchasing a partnership in a shipping merchant business. “I am very desirous to serve a friend…This friend, is trying to get on in commercial life but has no money, and finds it difficult to make a beginning. I want some how to help him to a beginning.” (292) Pip finds Herbert a good job even if it means Pip providing financial support.

her and lower social classes. He is overcome by greed, and immediately longs to be better educated. He realizes how much his family is different from that of the rich and wants nothing more than to be accepted as a gentleman. “It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.” (106)

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the sa

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