How has Pip changed during the first stage of Great Expecatations?Note the way he behaves towards his family, what he says to others, what others...

During the first stage of Great
Expectations, Pip learns "the stupendous power of money." Before his
experiences at Satis House where he is called "a common laboring boy" who has coarse
hands and boots, Pip has had no experience of the distinctions of social class.  About
the loving Joe Gargery, whom Pip narrates in Chapter VII that he has
had

... a new
sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my
heart

Pip later feels ashamed
as Joe stands silently dumbfounded in Miss Havisham's presence in Chapter XIII as she
glances at Joe "as if she understood what he really was...."  Upon his return, Pip no
longer enjoys sitting before the fire with Joe.  Instead he
narrates,

It
is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home....  Within a single year all this was
changed. Now, it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and
Estella see it on any
account.

And, in the next
chapter, Chapter XIV, Pip remarks on himself,

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...I would feel more ashamed of home than ever,
in my own ungracious
heart.

Pip worries as he
works as Joe's apprentice that Estella may one day see him working at the
forge 

...with
a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and
depise me.

Influenced by his
experiences outside his home, Pip becomes eager to leave after Mr. Jaggers arrives one
night to inform him that he has "great expectations."  He is embarrassed to have Joe
accompany him to the stage and

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wished to walk away all alone.  I am afraid that
this purpose originated in my sense of the contrast there would be between me and Joe if
we went to the coach together. I had pretended with myself that there was nothing of
this taint in the arrangement, but when I went up to my little room on this last night,
I felt compelled to admit that it might be so, and had an impulse upon me to go down
again and entreat Joe to walk with me in the morning.  I did
not.

In the First Stage of
Great Expectations, Pip falls from innocence into the corruption of
the spirit that the false values of money and social class bring.  As the adult
narrator, Pip remarks that he becomes aware of his "ingratitude," especially to "dear
Joe" whom he is so eager to leave behind because he is too coarse.  Pip desires to
become a gentleman as he falsely perceives that doing so will elevate him and make him a
better person. He becomes what he later calls himself, "a
self-swindler."