Chapter 8
"He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!" Pip cries afterward and resolves to become a gentleman.
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From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Estella's contemptuous appraisal of Pip plants the seed of his class shame and ambition — the wound that drives the novel.
Chapter 8
Pip's interior reckoning: "I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair."
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