Great Expectations: Pip's Life in the Upper Class Society In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," an orphaned boy, by the name of Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, lives his life and find out the many attributes life has to it. He finds how the society treats the different classes and how money makes all the difference in the world of a High class/Low class society. Pip grows up in a low class village and soon learns about the high class lifestyle as he visits a wealthy woman, Miss Havisham. From this, he is introduced to the effect money can have on a person. He learns that with mon