Second Stage Great Expectations

Pip's character has progressed in the direction of pursing the role of becoming a gentleman. Along with changing his attitude, Pip has great expectations to live up to when he is sent to London. With high hopes Pip is dissapointed,"While I was frightened by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked..." His wish of becoming a gentleman seems much more difficult now that he is actually in London. Dickens uses the word ugly to show the upper class is not as classy and charismatic as they may seem.

Pip is no longer innocent and naive as he once was when he was a boy. Although Pip has lost a lot of his innocence in the second stage, Pip lets his determination in for being upper class to cause him to let the innocence shine through like a child. Pip's lost character would have been amazed by the narrow and crooked streets, yet he only sees it as a disappointment. Dickens is always spreading the motif of becoming a gentleman throughout the book showing to the reader that it can cause more harm than good on the ones that really care about you