Miss Havisham House Analysis

In the story Great Expectations by Charles Dickens there was a fire at Miss Havisham's home. It was not a small home but a large one in today's standards. Her house was made up of bricks that seemed to be old. Her home also had rusted iron bars across most windows and some windows covered up with Sealed bricks. On the exterior of the house there was a large Brewery that seemed to have not been in use for a very long time. The Interior of her home was very dark, every hall Pip had turned all he saw was darkness. The only light source that Miss Havisham used were candles. Every hall and room around her home was dark and the only way to get any kind of light was from lighten candles that Miss Havisham had lit.

The Symbolic purpose of including this in his novel is to represent her Passion and the way she Lives. Miss Havisham's house is getting older and older, decaying away. For example Pip firsts notices that the fires are extinguished and that there is no life within the house or within herself. In Chapter 45 Pip says that "I saw her pass among the extinguished fires, and ascend some light iron stairs, and go out by a gallery high overhead, as if she were going out into the sky". However, on another day when their is an actual

Miss Havisham is a old lady that is dieing off and does not want people to just be there so when she dies they can get her money. People like that will make her uncomfortable and will make her not want to see anybody or talk to anyone. Miss Havisham talks to Pip and Estella because she knows that there no just their for the money there their because they actually care about her and what she is living through. The reason why Dickens included this incident into his novel is to clearly show Miss Havisham feelings throughout the story to show off how her character acts and why she acts a certain