Pip learns the difficult lesson of humility in the course
            of the novel. He also develops his understanding of the difference between character and
            class.  Miss Havisham's cruel machinations; forcing Pip to learn first his own, then
            Estella's ambivalent social position show Dickens bringing his characters up to date
            with a changing age where class and social position are no longer exclusive or
            fixed.
 Miss Havisham's patronage (a deception in
            itself) teaches Pip that the quality which Estella condemned in him; his 'coarseness',
            which he, in turn, condemned in himself and in his beloved Joe, is simply honesty. What
            the characters of the young Pip, Joe, Biddy and Magwitch represent are 'coarseness' in
            the form of unvarnished truth. They are fair, honest and full of integrity. Those who
            initially turn Pip's head - Miss Havisham and Estella - represent instability deception,
            arrogance and superficiality.
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