" This is a very apparent illusion of what Pip expects for the future. .
When the reality of this fantasy was discovered, Pip realizes that he was living in a dream-world he had created for himself and that reality stood far away from it. "Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me." Pip also realizes that he is not intended to be with Estella, and that the deceiving appearance of his expectations that he put out for himself were entirely wrong. Before Pip left for London, he thought that it was going to be .
majestic, breathtaking, and illustrious. However, when he got there he was very under-impressed by the city. "While I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty". He had expected it to be the world, the foundation of a new future, and the start of a new life. However, it did not meet up with his estimated expectations. The reality of London was dreary and gloomy, unlike the appearance of it from afar.
High social status seems to have a beautiful appearance, but the reality of the class system is not as pleasant as it would seem. When Pip realizes that his true benefactor is an fugitive criminal named Abel Magwich, he instantaneously does not want the riches he was being offered with all along. Magwich's intentions were to transform Pip into a gentleman through the use of his wealth because of a cruel lesson that Magwich learned. Magwich had been a poor man and had worked for a wealthy man named Compeyson. Compeyson had the appearance of a gentleman. "He set up fur a gentleman, this Compeyson, and he'd been to a public boarding-school and had learning. He was a smooth one to talk, and was a dab at the ways of gentlefolks. He was good-looking too. but he'd no more heart than an iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the devil afore mentioned.
