My young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands. I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how I had come up to bed from the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common doings.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 9. After Pip’s first visit to Satis House, he is worried about how Miss Havisham and Estella would view the man who has been an important father figure throughout his childhood. Rejecting Joe’s advice to be true to himself and his class, Pip becomes obsessed with social position and pleasing the upper class Havishams. His visit to their mansion has prompted him to see his own family’s way of life in a different and negative way. Estella and her criticisms of Pip being common have triggered in him an obsession with the importance of reputation and appearance over integrity and honesty. This change will follow him into adulthood.