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Examine how Pip is influenced by his first visit to Satis house.

The surrounding and actual events along with encounters Pip faces during
this first visit to Satis house strongly influence his character and
perspective on life.

It's Pumblechook who first deals with Pip before his visit to Satis
house. Like Mrs Joe he is neat, keeping everything in place. He does not
wish to form any form of a bond with Pip, "I had been ... of my eyebrows,"
and just like Mrs Joe he is quite happy to treat Pip as though he is a lower
being, the only, "conversation consisted nothing but arithmetic." He is not a
hard worker and is constantly checking up on what everybody else is doing
to make sure that he is the same as them. He shares similar values to Mrs
Joe, "being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential
character ought to be imparted to my diet," and like her he regards himself
as a higher class citizen. Ironically we notice how he referred to Pip as
gluttonous, while eating Christmas dinner. Now Pip says he ate in,...

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