"If I could buy the furniture now hired for me," said I, "and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there." (Pg. 197) Pip is asking his guardian Mr. Jaggers at his office for his money to buy things. Pip is becoming greedy for money and buying things. With Pip becoming a gentlemen, he has gained many things, but not for the better.
This event relates to the motif of Pip becoming a gentlemen. With that motif, the more Pip wants and becomes a gentlemen, the more the readers don't like him. In the first stage of the novel, Pip goes to Miss Havisham's and meets Estella. He wants to become a gentlemen to impress her even though she is so mean to him and Biddy is so perfect for him. Pip also starts to feel ashamed of his best friend Joe and the place where Pip lives. Pip is now becoming a worse and worse person which is also a reoccurring motif within the novel. This event really enhances the motif to show you that that Pip's bad character is building and that maybe by the end he will be a gentlemen, but have the downfall of being a terrible person.
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