Reflection on Social Graph

The narrative timeline my group chose to explore was a graph of social status for the characters; Pip, Joe, Magwitch, Miss Havasham and Jaggers from Great Expectations. We made a number of interesting observations such as Jaggers stays the same through out the book (as does Miss Havasham), by the end of the book Joe had gone up in social status, Magwitch was the lowest of all the characters and had a slight rise in chapter 35 (1822) when he came into money and helped Pip, finally Pip had many ups and downs in social climbing however he ends up a lot higher then when he started. From this exercise I learned how much Pip actually went through in the book and how because of his highs and lows in social climbing I can really see why sometimes he found it hard to connect with Joe, to actually try and get Estella to fall for him and also how he should have made his relationships with Magwitch and Miss Havasham, and finally how he would have felt really guilty as he left Joe and Mrs Joe behind socially and this all would have been very hard.