Great expectations, is a Victorian Bildungsroman centred of the self development of a protagonist named Pip. Pip is a young boy with a great expectation to elevate himself from his low class society and become educated as a gentleman. Pip's great expectations are accompanied by him acquiring new character traits such as selfishness, snobbery and dandyism. His expectation conditions his once innocent and morally just character and destroys his relationship with his loved ones. Ultimately leaves him a wanderer, with no place to call home. Immediately after being exposed to the higher social class society: the snobby Estella and the selfish Miss Havisham, Pip loses his childlike innocence and adopts selfishness. When an individual is selfish he is said to be "someone who only thinks of their own advantages  (Cambrigde Dictionary 1295). Upon his visits to Miss Havisham's house Pip falls in love with the beautiful cold-hearted Estella. Pip gains sudden expectations to be an educated gentleman and wishes to marry Estella. It is these expectations that cause a change in his character and over shadows his actions though the book. Pip learns to use people in order to realise his great expectations. The first person to fall victim to his selfishness is Biddy. In order to become worthy of Estella Pip uses Biddy "towards making himself uncommon  by "getting out of Biddy everything she knew  (Dickens 107). Ironically, Pip goes to a person as common as he in an attempt to become less common in hope to impress the snobby Estella. Biddy is not the only person subjected to this selfishness but Joe as well. Pip uses the education he gains from Biddy to educate Joe, in order "to impart to Joe  whatever he learnt as an attempt to make him "less ignorant and common  (Dickens 109). An indication of this is "so that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach  (Dickens 109). Pip's concern with Joe's commonness is only because it has an influence on his identity. He wants Joe to be less common so that he will be accepted by Estella. Thus Pip does not educate Joe because he cares for him as his father figure and friend rather he does it for his own advantages. Pip knows that Miss Havisham's does not intend for him to marry Estella rather for her to cause him pain. An indication of this is "I thought I heard Miss Havisham answer “ only it seemed so unlikely, well you can break his heart  (Dickens 99). Though Pip is aware of Miss Havisham's and Estella's intensions he still chooses to continue courting Estella. Pips great expectations conditions him to disregards both Biddy and Joe's purpose in his life and rather use them as his stepping stones. His burning desire to impress Estella overshadows his actions, blinds him from his morality and turns him into a selfish sno