PIP “PROMOTED” TO GENTLEMEN, LEAVES BEHIND FAMILY AND AILING SISTER

On the fourth year of Pip’s apprenticeship to Joe, a stranger beckons both of them and offers them a deal of a lifetime. Sources say that a Mr. Jaggers, a lawyer, was given instructions to “round up” Pip because a benefactor has taken an interest in Pip. Leaving Pip with 20 guineas and a place to stay in London, Pip is amazed and joyful that his previous confession to Biddy about wanting to become a gentlemen has come true. He counts down the days until his departure, anxious to rise and prosper. He leaves his entire past behind from there on out, erasing the existence of his previous self in favor of the creation of a new Pip.

Despite all Joe and Mrs. Gargery have done for Pip, he is excited to leave his “common” town and become something meaningful. It is at this point that Pip starts his change from who he has become to who he wishes to become, losing his kind heart, open mind, and everything that made Pip, Pip. He bids Biddy farewell, a much better suited love interest for Estella, who was trained to enact Miss Havisham’s revenge on the male race. His relationship with Joe, his only father figure in his life, begins to deteriorate soon after, replaced with Herbert Pocket, Mr. Jaggers, and Wemmick.

Pip begins to give up his relatively good future for the promise of Great Expectations, something that will lead to his downfall and haunt his actions for the rest of his life.