20-25 "Joe"

Pip just left Biddy and me to prance around London. I know I should be happy for Pip, but I can’t help but feel that being a gentleman will take a huge toll on Pip’s personality. I do know that Pip will not like London, because of its stench and how crowded it is. Pip wrote letters telling how he met his tutor’s son Herbert Pocket, who turned out to be the boy that Pip had fought in the garden of the Satis House. Pip told me of how Herbert was kind enough to teach him to be a gentleman. One of these days I will have to get Pip to teach me some of his tricks. One of the more astonishing part of Pip’s letter was to hear that at Matthew Pocket’s house the children are being raised by the nurse! I find this shocking that the parents can’t even seem to raise their own children without servants there to help. As Pip rambles on and on about how wonderful all the rich folk are, I start to feel like Pip is ashamed to be as poor as we are. If I had the choice and proper schooling, I would have chosen a more glamorous life style.