How Does Charles Dickens Present Miss Havisham's Character

Analyzing the Past Most swimmers work hard throughout the swim season. Swimmers work hard to achieve goals for the end of the season. When the season is almost over, they will look bad on what they should or should not have done during the season. When Miss Havisham is coming to the end of her life, she looks back on what she could have done differently. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, there are many changes Miss Havisham could have made for herself and the people around her if she lived a little while longer. Miss Havisham is a rich lady who does not like most people. She especially hates her relatives who come to visit her on her birthday. The relatives come in hopes that Miss Havisham will leave them money in her will. Mathew Pocket is …show more content…
Mr. Pocket is a tutor in London. Pip becomes one of Mr. Pocket’s tutees and Pip grows very fond of the Pockets. Pip, knowing that Miss Havisham does not like her relatives, tells her that Mr. Pocket and his son Herbert are very kind. He tells her this in hopes that she will be generous to them in her will. “ But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Mathew Pocket” (Dickens 201). This shows that she believes Pip’s word that the Pockets are nice people. Knowing that, she might try to meet them if she stayed alive. Meeting the Pockets could change Miss Havisham’s life. Estella is the person that Pip loves and furtively looks out for. She is raised by Miss Havisham to be callous towards all men. As Estella grows older, she gets bored of Miss Havisham and the lifestyle Miss Havisham wants her to lead. Miss Estella goes to London to be educated as a lady and introduced to society. She meets men at parties, and Pip becomes jealous of the time and effort she spends on them. Estella tells Pip that she is soon to be married to Drummel. Placidly, Estella also says that the “