Quotes

I think this quote sums up Mrs. Joe's character. She's very violent and often makes Pip feel uncomfortable among the most comfortable situations. "Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself." 

I think this quote is important because it represents Estella and how because of her Pip's desire to be part of "that world" festers. "I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death." 

I think Charles Dickens has a very important point when he states, "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts." 

This quote clearly shows the reader that Pip has changed and become a gentleman and now, there is this "line" between him and Joe, and a sense of awkwardness. “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, and must be met as they come.”