How does Pip describe wemmick?
Wemmick has a split personality. At work, he is professional, business-like and can be quite a bully. At home (which is in the form of a miniature castle), he is kind, caring and fun-loving. Pip almost thinks that the two Wemmicks must be a pair of identical twins.
What best describes the character of Estella?
Unlike the warm, winsome, kind heroine of a traditional love story, Estella is cold, cynical, and manipulative.
Which best describes the character of Miss Havisham?
Charles Dickens describes Miss Havisham as an immensely rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who leads a life of seclusion.
What does Miss Havisham represent in Great Expectations?
Miss Havisham and Satis House, both in ruins, represent wealth and social status for Pip; the irony is obvious. Their decayed state prefigures the emptiness of Pip’s dream of rising in social status and of so being worthy of Estella.
Does Miss Havisham die?
In a tragic accident, Miss Havisham is horribly burned when her wedding dress catches fire and she dies shortly afterwards.
What were Miss Havisham’s last words?
The last words she speaks in the novel are (in a delirium) to Pip, referencing both Estella and a note she, Miss Havisham, has given him with her signature: “Take the pencil and write under my name, ‘I forgive her!’ ” A surgeon dresses her burns, and says that they are “far from hopeless”.
What Pip says about Molly?
When Jaggers mentions Estella’s marriage shortly after Molly walks in, Pip realizes that Molly is someone he cannot place. He eventually comes to the conclusion that it is Estella who she mysteriously resembles. He realizes at once that Molly must be Estella’s mother.
How does PIP realize Molly is Estella’s mother?
In Chapter 48, Pip watches the housekeeper at Mr. Jaggers’ residence and notices with surprise that she seems familiar – “her hands were Estella’s hands, and her eyes were Estella’s eyes”. He becomes convinced “that this woman was Estella’s mother”.