When Joe accompanies Pip to Satis House, it is because
Miss Havisham had requested Joe be present. Pip is still a young boy, but at Satis
House, he had certainly been learning certain new social graces that Joe would not know
being a laboring blacksmith whose livelihood kept him at the forge and illiterate. Pip
anticipated the difficulty of a discussion between Havisham and Joe. Pip anticipated
being embarrassed.
As luck would have it, this turned out
to be just as Pip imagined. Joe refused to address Miss Havisham when she spoke to him.
Pip narrates:
It was very aggravating; but, throughout the
interview Joe persisted in addressing me instead of Miss
Havisham.
Joe's discussion
through Pip continued and Pip grew increasingly disheveled. The content of their
discussion was Pip's future, and this did not travel in the direction of Pip's wishes.
Pip was becoming interested in becoming a gentleman. Between Joe and Havisham, it was
determined that Pip wanted to be at the forge.
Joe also had
worn his Sunday clothes. These looked rather funny on him, but Pip wasn't about to tell
him as he could see how nervous Joe was already.
For the
most part, Pip was simply embarrassed of Joe for these
behaviors.
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