Pip, now travelling in America, wrote to me by the means of a letter, telling me of the time Joe came to visit. As he walked up the street to Pip and Herbert's house, Pip noticed how uncomfortable Joe looked. In fact, he looked as if he had never seen a city before. This is, so far, the only story that Pip has told me in which he is a snob. Becoming a gentleman has that side effect, you become disgusted of people that do not use proper manners and do other things that would embarass themselves. This is, more or less, exactly what Joe did. When Joe came in, Pip offered to take his hat, but Joe nervously ignored him and started talking to him about how everyone was back home. This was even worse than expected. Joe thought that Pip was better than him, which was too much for pip to bear. When Herbert entered the room, was introduced, and offered to shake his hand, Joe recoiled from it, to Pip's dismay. And when they sat down to drink tea, Joe put his hat on the corner of the mantel over the fireplace. It fell down at least three times before Joe bobbled the hat for a long while, until it finally came to rest in the tea bowl (clumsy man). Pip, extremely embarassed, grabbed the hat and put it on the hat rack. Pip then began to notice every single flaw that Joe had, especially when he was eating (you used to be just like him, jerk). He would stop and think sometimes, with his fork halfway between his mouth (what's wrong with that), he would break off into fits of coughing (maybe he has a cold), he sat far from the table, and dropped more food than he got in his mouth. After Herbert had left for the city, Joe revealed that he was there to deliver a message from Miss Havisham. This message was that Estella was back home. Pip is now thinking, "Man, I would have treated you a lot better if I knew that you would tell me that information". Not a good reason to be nice you conditional loving, snobby gentleman.