"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one maan's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppermith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come." After choosing to become a gentleman, choosing money over friends, choosing to part from the ones who truely love you. Hoping the love of your life will love you back, hoping to make something of yourself, hoping to make her proud. After choosing all these things -- money, repect, and social popularity -- to try to make yourself look better, would you forget about your family and friends and treat them as if they are not worthy eough to talk to you? Not worthy enough to be treated with respect; even though they are your family? It is clear Pip has made his choice, after being so rude to Joe that Joe leaves Pip's home and returns back to his own, for it is simply unjust from him to be treated this way.
Even on the worst of days, after doing poorly on an assignment, after loosing your job -- whatever the case may be -- when we return home, we can always seek help and love from our family. Helping us overcome these problems, doing whatever they can to make us feel better, even for a little while. Knowing that our family loves us, knowing they are the reason we are who we are, knowing that they are the reason we act they way we act, would we abandon our family after we are done with their services? Now that we are able to provide for ourselves would we leave our family once and for all? When able to reunite with them we would make this a time to remember, to make up for the time we have not seen each other; we would never even consider treating them as if they are unimportant because they belong to a lower social class than ourselves. This form of disrespect was illustrated through Pip's reunion with Joe, where Pip treated Joe so badly that Joe left Pip's home, for he did not feel welcome there. Disrespecting those who loves us is an unjust act to our elders and a form of disrespect we ourselves cannot even imagine, something Pip was taught while living in the house of Joe and Mrs. Joe. However now that he has moved to London, this idea of respect is gone.
