GE #12

“I found the Blue Boar in possession of the intelligence, and I found that it made a great change in the Boar’s demeanour” (449). A commonly explored theme in the novel is social status. In the beginning high stature is everything to Pip; he believes that to win Estella’s compassion, he must be rich, educated, and a “gentleman.” Growing older and wiser, and also having lost all of his “expectations”, Pip discovers that social status has nothing to do with integrity. It does however affect the views others have on him, as mentioned in this passage. Dickens wants the reader to identify with Pip that friendship and dependability are favorable to social status.