Pip's Quote

     I would interpret this quote to mean that aspects of your life in the future by what happens to you in the present. I assume that he is comparing events in the present to the first links of a long chain. On the day he first meets Estella, his views on the world are altered. Before this, he had a childlike view on the world; he had never known hunger, and all the suffering in his life was caused by his sister, so naturally he thought that he had all a person could ever want. After meeting Estella, he suddenly became mush more aware of the gap between the classes, and started viewing himself as common, and dirty. The Pip before and after this quotation are two similar, but different people, the first Pip has never known anything but the small world of the blacksmiths house, and so he wants nothing more, but the second Pip has had his eyes opened to the world of the economic elite, and comes to view himself as inferior, simply because of the harsh nature of one cruel child. In addition to feeling inferior, the second Pip seems more mature and aware of the world. It seems unrealistic, but as the result of one day of torment at the hands of Estella, Pip seems to have matured greatly, into an almost different person.

     Because I can't think of anything else, I would say that one of the first links in my "chain" was the day I decided to sign up for honors English. A decision that has left me doomed to sit at a computer writing blog posts at 11:30 on Friday nights for the rest of the year.