Pip starts to believe his life and his home to be coarse and common, as well.
After years of visits to Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip develops the notion that he must become a gentleman in order to worthy of Estella's love. However, Pip brings Joe to Miss Havisham, on her request. Pip is embarrassed of Joe's clothing, the way he fiddles with his hat and how he walks on his tiptoes as they enter the house of Miss Havisham. He comments that Joe's dialect seems unusually strong and illiterate. As Miss Havisham questions Joe about starting Pip on his apprenticeship, Joe directs his answers towards Pip, who continually tries to make Joe address Miss Havisham. He is embarrassed of Joe and for Joe. Pip is now the apprentice to Joe, a blacksmith, and is sent home with no more welcomed invitations to Satis House. He reflects on his new job, "I was truly wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like Joe's trade. I had liked it once, but once was not now (Dickens, 104)" to explain the humiliation of his new "common" job and his future of becoming a blacksmith.
The next point in Pip's life that changes his attitude towards Joe and Biddy is his new found wealth granted to him from an unknown benefactor. Pip learns that he is endowed to a fortune, which will lead him to London to become a gentleman. His happiness for this endowment is unfathomable. The money changes his life as apprentice, as well as blacksmith, which he does not desire as he points out to Biddy, " I am not at all happy as I am. I am disgusted with my calling and with my life (Dickens, 142)". Pip is instructed to buy new clothes for his stay in London, which makes Pip very excited. He decides to send his clothes to Mr. Pumblechook's home because he does not want to be stared at by all the people who live near him. Pip begins to establish himself as higher than those he has been associated. He is more wrapped up in himself and his self-image that he does not see that he hurts Joe and Biddy.
