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Paragraph 6
When Pip comes into his expectations, believing Miss
Havisham to be his benefactor, and he leaves for the
life of a gentleman in London, the gap between Joe,
Biddy and the forge, and the new Pip becomes
huge.
(1)
This is represented particularly in the
chapter describing Joe’s visit to Pip and Herbert’s
chambers. Firstly, Joe is dressed in formal clothes,
which he finds most uncomfortable, especially the
tight shirt collar he is wearing. He then has great
difficulty in putting down his hat so that it does not
topple over constantly. He addresses Pip as ‘sir’ and is
clearly very ill-at-ease throughout the visit. Pip has
arranged that Joe visit him in his chambers rather
than at Hammersmith, because he knows Herbert
will be sympathetic and because he does not want
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Bentley Drummle and Estella to encounter the
awkward blacksmith. During Joe’s visit, Pip becomes
increasingly exasperated and embarrassed by Joe’s
gaucheness, a feeling that makes him feel ashamed
but which he cannot control. At the end of the visit,
Joe confesses that his trip has been a terrible mistake
and that he was always ill-at-ease whenever he left
the forge. 
(2)
Joe’s visit is a symbolic event in the
alienation of Pip from his early years. Joe’s
statement about their being ‘ever the best of friends’
now rings hollowly. 
(3)
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It is Bentley Drummle, indeed, 
(1)
who symbolises the
worst aspects of the London society to which Pip
aspires to belong. 
(2)
Drummle is cold, calculating,
snobbish, proud and cruel, and it is no surprise
when the equally cold Estella marries him
eventually. Pip is Drummle’s love rival and they both
belong to the Finches, a club for young gentlemen.
Because Pip feels he has to belong in this world, he
begins to overspend and runs up huge debts. He has
come a long way from being a penniless blacksmith’s
apprentice, but he is no happier for it. 
(3)
He has by
now lost touch with the values that had been forged
in him through Joe and Biddy. 
(4)