Joe comes to London

Pip continues his training as a gentleman as time passes and soon develops the mindset of a gentleman as well. He is innocent personality turns into arrogance as now he thinks that he is better than all the common people, including Joe and Biddy, and of what he once was. He looks down on those people now and his moral values of compassion and love are diminished greatly at this point in the book. When Joe comes to London to see Pip, they have a very akward conversation that does not go smoothly. Pip seems annoyed at Joe because he does not want Drummle to look down on him as Joe is very common. This shows that Pip cares more about raising his social status now than caring about his old family that once took care of him. He is becoming the exact part of Estella that he hated and the part of her that made him unable to connect with her. His arrogance is too great now that Joe is unable to connect with him and after all those years of building friendship with each other, their relationship is shattered and Pip is unwilling to mix his old life and his new life with each other.