Great Expecations

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to less compassion.
The suggestion insinuated of how richer people care less for others than poor people do throughout the book is illustrated by Drummle, who treats Pip in a substandard manner. From his first impression, Pip detests Drummle’s attitude. He claims, “Drummle was an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture” (208) Pip says this to illustrate Drummle’s arrogance and wealth. For example, he uses the oxymoron “old young-looking” to describe Drummle as arrogant. He acts old, but is still young. Also, since he is from a “heavy order of architecture,” he also appears to be rich as well as arrogant. Drummle remains so wealthy that he mistreats Pip heavily throughout the book. Through all these ways, Drummle shows that the affluent class demonstrates less love than the deprived.
Miss Havisham, a rich lady who leads Pip and Estella into an unreal, fanciful world, exemplifies Dickens’s implication on how the social class system is structured from the snobby and ...

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