There is never just one side to anyone. The way someone acts at school and around their friends may be completely different from how they behave at home. The way a person acts is determined by the companions they keep around them, and it is not just students either, everyone’s persona changes to fit the environment they are put into. The case in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is of Pip’s behavioral changes. Pip starts off as an orphaned boy raised by his horrible sister, Mrs. Joe, and her kindred husband, Joe. However, as the story progresses, Pip meets more and more people and his attitude is distinctly altered with each person. Dickens’ Great Expectations reveals the alterations of Pip’s individuality caused by the influences of loving Joe, devoted Herbert, and cold Estella; illustrating that the relations a person has affects their attitude. Pip’s personality changes are due to his surrounding and because of the strong influence Joe has on him. When Mrs. Joe would punish Pip, Joe would be the one to comfort Pip. Joe was the only one to show Pip any kind of love in his early childhood. Though Joe was not the smartest person, all he wanted was for Pip to have more options than he himself had. Joe would often say to Pip “ever the best of friends” (Dickens 135). Joe believed with all his heart that he and Pip would always have a close bond. In a way, Pip and Joe did have a strong relationship, and because of the love Joe wholeheartedly gave Pip, Pip had a pleasant childhood. However, soon afterward Pip went to live with Mr. Jaggers, who was been paid by a mysterious source to mold Pip into a gentleman. When Joe comes to visit Pip in London, Pip's feelings toward Joe are not what they once were. For he says to himself " Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity" (Dickens' 203). Pip use to love being around Joe,