Ms. Havisham is one of the creepiest and eeriest literary characters of all time. As a young woman she was left at the alter by her lover and betrothed and was never the same. Convinced her love would return to her, or not willing to admit he wouldn’t, Ms. Havisham wears her wedding dress each and every dress, and her once majestic and beautiful cake sits deteriorating on a banquet table, the table she wants to be laid upon at the time of her death. In addition, Ms. Havisham plays with the lives and emotions of the people who she is around much like she does with Pip and Estella. Whispering into Pips ear pointing out Estella’s beauty and charm, and also at the same time telling Estella to toy with his fragile heart, to be unattainable. Also, she leads Pip to believe she is the anonymous benefactor helping him to become a gentleman, when in fact she has nothing to do with it. Convinced nobody can be happy if she’s not Miss. Havisham views other’s lives as less significant while she is stuck in one moment, every clock and all, at twenty to nine, the moment she realized her dreams of love weren’t coming true. Throughout the book it becomes more evident she feels bad for deceiving Pip and gets badly burned from "falling" into a fire, from this the reader can infer that she may be punishing herself for her sins. Does doing whats right at the end and apologizing make up for your mistakes?
