hold on Pip!

To me this picture symbolizes how as Pip goes on with his life in london after leaving home his connection with his childhood, and his old home in the marshes is unraveling and with seemingly eventually be severed. It is only barely remembered as he attempts to make a gentleman out of the blacksmith he grew up as. It also shows how even though he is leading a different life in the town that there is still a last remaining strand of the boy he was and all of the things that lead him to the point he is at.