Social and financial status plays an important role in our environment today. Rich people tend to get more recognition for having more money and the lower class tends to have a bad reputation as uneducated people who have no rights as citizens. Social status in a large city refers to how people treat a person and see how they represent themselves throughout the community. In the book Great Expectations, Charles Dickens explains wealth and popularity in the 1800s as key factors in life. It allows the reader to see how important it is to be from the upper class, but it also makes the reader understand that whether they are rich or poor, that certain person is always judged in their life and sometimes being judged can ruin who they truly are inside. Lower-class citizens in the 1800s were portrayed as good-hearted people who took whatever they could get and made the best of what they had. Joe was described as a man of many words and a person who knew how to create and was skilled at his craft. He worked as a blacksmith and earned the best he could with his small income. He became a victim of Mrs. Joe's abuse and also turned into Pip's long-lost friend. His status in this particular book was portrayed as an unpopular person, but someone who would give the t-shirt to the man who tried harder to live than him. Joe never let Pip down even when Pip erased him from his memory. During Mrs. Joe's funeral service, Pip returned to Joe saddened without a word to say. Joe was a strong person at that time, but he also kept his heart in his mouth thinking deep down that he would never become something for Pip. Pip now being rich thought that he would surround himself with wealthy humans, but in reality he never understood the friendship that Joe cherished and also took for granted what Joe had taught him in life. During the time of Pip's debt, Joe came to Pip's rescue and nursed him back to stable condition. Pip had no money, but was still considered upper class. Joe paid all of Pip's debts out of the goodness of his heart and left Pip with these words on page 439: "Not wishing to intrude, I left because you are well again dear Pip and I'd better do without".