Chapter 14
What I wanted, who can say? How can I say, when I never knew? What I dreaded was, that in some unlucky hour I, being at my grimiest and commonest, should lift up my eyes and see Estella looking in at one of the wooden windows of the forge. I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me. Often after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham's would seem to show me Estella's face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me, - often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last.
In this passage, Charles Dickens uses symbolism to describe low class. When Pip thinks that he would be devastated if Estella would see him working in the forge, that is a use of symbolism. The symbol in this passage is the forge and the forge symbolizes working class. Since Pip wanted to be a gentlemen and be a higher class than the working class in order to be with Estella, he is ashamed by being Joe's apprentice.
In this passage, Charles Dickens uses symbolism to describe low class. When Pip thinks that he would be devastated if Estella would see him working in the forge, that is a use of symbolism. The symbol in this passage is the forge and the forge symbolizes working class. Since Pip wanted to be a gentlemen and be a higher class than the working class in order to be with Estella, he is ashamed by being Joe's apprentice.