Pip Changing Throughout the Book

Pip Changing Throughout the Book
-Blog Post #2-

Topic B

April 24, 2015

By Kenner Bartos

Throughout Great Expectations, Pip changes significantly. At times he seems to revert back to the old Pip with a guilty conscience, but overall he has grown from a child who could not say no to anybody, to a snobby person who feels he is too good for the people around him. At the beginning of the book, Pip was confronted by an escaped prisoner who told him to get a file for his leg irons. Pip did not think twice. If Pip had left and never come back to help the prisoner, he would have been fine and never been found by the prisoner. But Pip consciously chose to help the prisoner. During Pip's time at the Satis house, he begins to change. This is mostly because of Estella, who thinks she is better than Pip. Pip seems to be influenced by what Estella says to him. When Pip is given money to go to London, he changes dramatically. The money gives him a snobby and selfish attitude. He thinks he is too good for the people around him, and leaves without hardly saying goodbye. Although he does show some regret for acting this way, he is back to being snobby very soon when he is having a suit made for himself.