How Does Dickens Present Pip's Relationship To The High End?

Since Great Expectations take place many years after the events Dickens takes us through the life of Pip as a young child to a man in his mid-thirties. Throughout his life he is subjected to characters that vary in social class. Joe, Bitty and Magwitch are the low end while Drummle, Compeyson and Miss Havisham represent the high end. Dickens uses character of Pip to illustrate that one’s social standing has no correlation to their true character which can be seen when Pip encounter with the convict at his parents’ tombstone, Pip desire to wed Estella and Pip helps Magwitch secretly buying Herbert’s way into business.
Pip illustrates the idea that one’s social standing has no correlation to their true character when he judges his own past

From one viewpoint, Pip has a profound craving to enhance himself and accomplish any conceivable headway, whether instructive, good, or social. His aching to wed Estella and join the privileged societies originates from an indistinguishable optimistic craving to be part of the upper class: “It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped like the watch and clock a long time ago.” (66) This shows when he saw Estella his world stop and he saw her as the way to get to the upper class. Pip believed that being in the upper class would mean you would have a good moral character like Estella. But when Estella chooses to marry Drummle because she knew he was a bad person. Estella explains to Pip that she has no heart as far as emotions “You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, “that I have no heart—if that has anything to do with my memory.” (162) This showed even though you might be upper class you still can have no moral character.
Pip illustrates the idea that one’s social standing has no correlation to their true character when Pip turns into a noble man he instantly starts to go about as he supposes a man of his stature should act, which drives him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly. Pip feels terribly for treating them as badly “Their influence on my own character, I disguised