Ambition

Quote

Character

Chapter

“The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.”

Pip

10

“I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence. Within a single year all this was changed.”

Pip

14

“I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella’s reproach”

Pip

15

“my desire to be wiser”

Pip

15

“‘Biddy,’ said I, after binding her to secrecy, ‘I want to be a gentleman.’ ‘Oh, I wouldn’t, if I was you!’ she returned. ‘I don’t think it would answer.’ ‘Biddy,’ said I, with some severity, ‘I have particular reasons for wanting to be a gentleman.’”

Pip

17

“Truly it was impossible to dissociate her presence from all those wretched hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed my boyhood – from all those ill-regulated aspirations that had first made me ashamed of home and Joe”

Pip

29