So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham’s again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common labouring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 9. As Pip travels between the upper class world of Satis House and his world at the forge, the walk home provides him plenty of time to reflect. Before he met Miss Havisham and her ward Estella he was mostly satisfied with his position in life. But Estella’s criticism of his common laboring class appearance and behavior has made him feel ashamed and dissatisfied with his position in life. We see the beginnings of the embers of desire and ambition to improve himself and move up the social ladder in the boy Pip.