Through chapter 27 of the classic novel - `Great Expectations' by the all-time famous English writer Charles Dickens, he presents different characters differently, through independent personalities and behaviors, as they change throughout the text. In chapter 27, the perfect example of this idea is the relation between Pip and Joe. Pip starts acting and feeling differently towards Joe, and the same for Joe, as he starts to treat pip differently, once he moved to London, and starts studying to be a gentleman, and rises in social class.

After Pip starts his life-long dreamed journey to becoming a gentleman, Joe changes his attitude towards him. He feels more pressure when around him and the need to act more formal, so that he will not embarrass Pip. "You and me is not two figures to be together in London." These words quoted by Joe, clearly show us that he has lost all...