In stage two of the novel Pip becomes a wealthy gentleman overnight. He fits into his new life quite quickly and soon acts as if this is the person he has been his entire life. Pip spends a lot of money when he realizes he has it because all he has to do is ask Jaggers for sum of it and Jaggers will willfully oblige. The spending of the money seems to make him very selfish because the money is coming from his benefactor and Pip does not have to work for any of it and does not care where it is coming from, just as long as he is getting it.
Pip, and his new unhealthy habit of spending money, fit into the motif we talked about in class that related to the longing for becoming a gentleman. When Pip was back at home with Joe he longed to become a gentleman with obscene amounts of cash. Well now that his wildest dreams have come true he is a gentleman, but along with that title comes descriptions such as spoiled, arrogant, and lazy. Pip now looks down on the group of society he was once apart of which plays along with another theme we discussed in class, irony.
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