3- Pip's Apprenticeship

At the Satis House, things seem to be going in the right direction for Pip. Estella, is now less rude and even pleasant towards Pip, and even allowing him to kiss her. Miss Havisham seems to have taken a liking towards Pip and even lets him escort her around the house. Yet one day, Miss Havisham offers to help Pip with the papers that would make him Joe's apprentice in the forge. Pip is devastated because he realized that Miss Havisham really never meant for him to become a gentleman. Pip absolutely despises working at the forge, but keeps it to himself for the sake of Joe's goodness. He sees Estella mocking him for being a blacksmith instead of a gentleman, in every action he makes at the forge.

Pip spent so much time at the Satis House, that he began to feel almost like he was a "gentleman." Pip even started treating Joe and Biddy as if they were inferior to him, and started to disassociate himself from the lower class. When the news of his apprenticeship came to him, Pip really must have been extremely worried, for all that he aspired to be was a gentleman, and the prospects of that happening seemed to be diminishing rapidly.