Pip lives with his Sister, and her husband Joe. Joe is a blacksmith with a very small income which makes them poor, and part of the lower class society. Joe taught Pip everything he knew; interaction with others along with the work of a blacksmith. However, Pip just seems to take account for what he lacks rather than realizing what he already has. When Pip is led to Miss Havisham’s world and the upper class society that’s when Pip acknowledges everything he doesn’t have. Pip realizes how much he wants to become part of Miss Havisham’s society, “I had heard of Miss Havisham up town—everybody for miles round, had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion” (Dickens chapter …show more content…
Fitzgerald divided the social society into two; East Egg and West Egg. East Egg is where people are referred as the old money because they were born into wealthy families and inherited the fortune. While on the other hand, West Egg is where the people have recently become wealthy and known to be new money. Those living in West Egg for example, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are unable to afford living in East Egg, despite having money. Even though Jay Gatsby has managed to become a wealthy man, he wasn’t able to bring himself to the standards of the old society of upper class. He wouldn’t be considered to be equal in the eyes of Daisy and her husband