How Does Pip Become A Gentleman

Pip’s environment pressures him to become a gentleman, as shown in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Pip is an orphaned boy who moves to London when he finds out he have a anonymous beneficiary. He moves to the Satis House where he works on becoming a gentleman. Throughout the text Pip tries to solve the injustice of being poor by becoming a gentleman, to win over Estella. He have a difficult time getting Estella, but it eventually happens. Pip is partially successful because he doesn’t become a gentleman. Pip starts to follow the teachings of Miss Havisham and confuses being a gentleman with being wealthy. He starts to become selfish and a little arrogant when he works on being a gentleman. Dickens show us that wealth and social status cannot make you happy, through Pip when he

We see this where Pip says “ I had insensibly begin to notice their effect upon myself and those around me. Their influence on my own character I disguised from my recognition as much as possible, but I knew very well that it was not all good” (Dickens,213). Pip realizes that he changed a lot while he tried to become a gentleman. Pip let people like Miss Havisham influence him and he realizes that it was a big mistake. He could've been happier if he stayed at the forge with Joe. Pip confirms this when he says “I should have been happier and better if I had never seen Miss Havisham’s face, and had risen to manhood content to be partners with Joe in the honest old forge” (Dickens,213). Pip was wealthy and had a lot of flashy things but he wasn't happy because he let that be the center of his world, along with winning Estella over. It took for him to be broke to realize that he probably should've stayed back at the forge with Joe because he could have lived a happier life. Miss Havisham symbolized wealth for Pip because she lived in a big house and he thought that the things she taught him, would get him to that