Pip And Miss Havisham In Great Expectations

Traditionally, a mentor is an advisor that leads their protege on an improved and beneficial path than their current path in life. However, the mentor and pupil relationship between Pip and Miss. Havisham contradicts tradition. Miss Havisham influences the outcome of Pip’s life by exposing him to the idea of wealth and its relation to social status. In “Great Expectation” by Dickens Pip’s expectation of wanting to be a gentleman shows that reality is sometimes ignored when it doesn’t fit within the same premises of the desired expectation.
Pip is introduced to Estella by Miss Havisham when he visits her home at “Satis house,” but Estella’s attitude towards Pip's social status causes Pip to envisage the idea that he is inadequate. Pip was raised
When Pip meets Estella for the first time, even though she's impudent, brusque, and inconsiderate of Pip's or anyone's feelings, he divulges to Miss Havisham that she's "...proud…[and] very pretty…," and while she has saddened him immeasurably he would not object to seeing her again. During the entirety of Pip and Estella’s card game, Miss Havisham constantly puts her expensive and sparkling jewelry on Estella to make her more appealing to Pip. While Pip is finding Estella appealing, she ridicules him constantly for calling "knaves Jacks." At the end of the game, Pip requests to leave because he's had enough of Estella’s malignity for the day. However, before he can leave, Miss Havisham instructs Estella to feed Pip some bread, meat, and wine. When Estella is giving him the food, she treats him like a "dog in disgrace" and that makes him hurt so deeply that he cries. However, Pip feels indignation towards himself because he can not think of the "...right name..." to describe his feelings. Dickens references Estella treating Pip as a “dog” to show just how vicious and pitiless Estella truly was. Yet, Pip claims he did not cry about the way she treats him, but because he couldn’t remember the appropriate term for his feelings. Miss Havisham also constantly encourages Pip to love Estella when she knows that Estella is incapable of reciprocating Pip’s