Dickens has some fun with his characters when he has Drummle and Pip acting like two children vying for power in front of the Blue Boar's fireplace. He also foreshadows the type of death Drummle will have by showing his brutal treatment of his horse in this chapter.
The element of portraying emotions through an object shows up in these chapters through Dickens' description of the bed Pip gets at Hummums as a despotic monster that squeezes all the other furniture in the room.
Orlick surfaces again as the man who lights Drummle's cigar outside the inn. While not mentioned specifically, the slouching shoulders and ragged hair point to Orlick and give the feeling that Pip is surrounded by evil that is closing in on him. This feeling is compounded by the note Wemmick leaves at the Temple warning Pip not to go home, and Wemmick's later telling Pip he and Magwitch are being watched.
