This picture represents the unfavorible change in Pip's character over the course of the reading up to this point. In the beginning, he was a quite likeable character, but from the point he meets Estella he starts riding the "wave" into the very superficial, unlikeable character he is now. Being dubbed a gentleman has done nothing to Pip except create this man with nothing better to do than ponder the things he's not content with. Pip is miserable, and I think that this change in him will ultimately "defeat" him. Pip got so caught up in this change, that he forgot the important things in life; these things aren't buying clothes, or having drunken debates with other gentlemen; they are talking with Joe in the Jolly Bargemen, or walking with Biddy, or teaching Joe to read and write...etc. The convict Magwitch didn't make Pip a jerk, he attempted at making him a gentleman, however it seems that Dickens is trying to show that, in this time period, the two terms were synonymous. Changes can be great, or very poor; it all depends on how those affected rise to the occasion. Pip decides to take the unfavorable route.
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