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One of the most important concepts that occurs in the first two stages of Great Expectations is Pip becoming a gentleman. This picture illistrates one thing slowly evolving into another thing completely different (which is what happened to Pip). The poor boy Pip, living by the marshes,slowly turned into an aristocrat living in London. This photo is not to be seen for its background or theory behind it, that is a different story. This simply illustrates how one thing can evolve into another which can be seen in the first two stages of the book. Even though one changes, its not always for the better. Pip slowly becomes more and more snobbish as he furthers his "gentleman career". From this, him and Joe grow farther apart and continue to do so even though they try and mend things back together. Pip's feelings about Joe's arrival were "Not with pleasure....I had the shapest senstiveness to his being seen by Drummle" (p.203). Here, Pip is ashamed of Joe because he is from the lower class. Not only that, but Joe treats Pip differently by calling him "sir". From these changes that occured, Joe explains that he needs to leave by saying"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come...." (p. 209) This is just one aspect of Pip's life that changed because he changed. So many other changes happened in his life dealing with Estella, Miss Havisham, Jaggers, various convicts and more. I could have explained each, but I think Joe is the most important change being that he is truely close in Pip's heart and that will never change.