Question

his struggle to become a gentleman
Great expectation​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The nub of Pip’s problem is that he’s a country boy, brought up in a blacksmith’s forge, who wrongly imagines that by becoming an urbane and sophisticated gentleman he will win the love of the beautiful but haughty Estella, who belongs to a higher social sphere. This is spelt out in the very short Chapter 14, when Pip reflects gloomily on being doomed to a life at the forge, and then in Chapter 17, when he makes his ‘lunatic confession’ to Biddy as to ‘his particular reasons for wanting to be a gentleman’, namely, ‘The beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham’s, and she’s more beautiful than anybody ever was, and I admire her dreadfully, and I want to be a gentleman on her account.’