"What coarse hands and thick boots he has!"

A great deal of time passes from when the convicts are caught, and Pip resumes his normal life with Mrs. Joe and Joe. Mrs. Joe is terribly strict to both Pip and Joe and gets angry over the smallest things, while Joe is a blacksmith and Pip's closest friend and mentor. Later on, Pip goes to Mr. Wopsle's school and learns how to read and write and receives a decent education. One day, Pip's uncle, Mr. Pumblechook, gives news that he has arranged for Pip to go play at the Satis House, owned by Miss Havisham, an affluent elder lady. When Pip arrives, he meets a girl, Estella, who lives at the Satis House and Pip takes a great liking to because of her beauty. She takes him to see Miss Havisham, who is a very mysterious looking woman that has not seen the sun in years. Strangely, Pip is not frightened by her, and is ordered to play with Estella. Although Pip shows affection toward Estella, she does the opposite to him, and mocks him about his low social status with insults about things that he had not even realized before, such has his coarse hands and thick boots. Still, Pip enjoys the company of Estella despite her coldness and learns a lot about the high social class. In his encounter with Estella and Miss Havisham, Pip uncovers a type of living that he did not even existed before, and suddenly because of this, he realizes how low of a social class he is, and becomes unsatisfied with his way of living, which seemed perfectly fine before.