“We Britons had at that time particularly settled, that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of everything: otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty.” (133).
Dickens uses this passage to show the difference between high society life in England and the lower classes. To the people in the upper class, London is supposed to be a beautiful city, the best in the world; the lower society is able to see London the way it truly appears: ugly. Pip comes from a low class family, so he is able to see London for its worth, but because of his sudden acquisition of wealth, he joins the high society in seeing London as the immense city he must.
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