In chapter 7, Pip talks about his schooling and reads Joe a letter he wrote. Joe states, "I say, Pip, old chap! What a scholar you are! Ain't you?" (Dickens, 41). The truth is the letter was written very poorly but Joe doesn't care. He's glad that Pip has wrote him a letter. This also shows the relationship between the two of them. So far throughout the story, Joe has become the second significant character behind Pip.
Chapter 8 is when Pip goes to Miss Havisham's house to play. Pip meets this girl, Estella, and while Pip is leaving she says, "You have been crying till you are half-blind, and you are near crying again now" (Dickens, 59). Pip is very sad at the end of his visit to the house and cries the whole way home. We find that Estella is very wealthy and also very bratty. She is always criticizing Pip's social status and loves to make fun of him. Pip knows that if he speaks up or does anything to disrespect her, his sister and everyone else will be very upset at him. This shows how the social status was like in those days.
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