Learning To Become A Gentleman

Dear readers,

Ever since Pip has moved to London becoming a gentleman has been a main subject. In this particular quote Pip is, without even knowing it, learning an important lesson of become a gentleman. Pip is walking Mr. Wemmick to work in london a observes this, "By degrees. Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along. and his mouth tightened into an post office again. At last when we got to this place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the castle…had all been blown into space together…" (pg. 209) Mr. Wemmick is becoming a proper business man who has almost no resemblance to the Mr. Wemmick that Pip saw at his home.

To be a professional gentleman you must be serious and when out in to world must treat everything with business like attitude. This ties into Pip's schooling to become a gentleman, and how just being around a gentleman can be very beneficial to him. Something in the first stage that is a lot like this is when Pip first sees Mr. Jaggers. Pip's description of him is what Pip believes is what a gentleman should look like and uses this example when the time came to furnish himself for gentleman-hood.

Love, Amaya