Second Stage

Pip's character begins to change for he is in hope of pursuing his role of becoming a gentlemen. Along with a changing attitude, Pip's expectations are greater, for he is sent to London. With high hopes, Pip is disappointed; for he says, "While I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty. His goal of becoming a gentlemen seems much further away now that he is in London. Dickens uses words like crooked, ugly, and narrow to show that the upper class is not as charismatic as it may seem.

Pip is no longer seen as the once innocent and naive young boy. Though Pip has seem to have lost his innocents in the second stage, Pip allows his determination in for being upper class to cause him to become just as naive as child. Pip's lost character would have been awed by the crooked and narrow streets of London; yet he sees it as nothing but a disappointment. Dickens spreads the motif of "becoming a gentleman" all throughout the book; showing to the reader that it can cause much harm then good on the ones that truly care about you.