Miss Havisham's Story

Havisham is Miss Havisham’s story in her own words. Miss Havisham reflects on her feelings for the man who left her, and the effect it has had on her. It explores how she could have come to be the woman she is. She remembers her ex in her dreams, and feels better until she wakes herself up trying to bite him. There is a sexual element to the dreams, and this is carried on into the violent end of the poem that wants him dead. The poem provides another insight into Miss Havisham, which gives the reader some empathy into her situation. It is also about obsessive love gone wrong.
Duffy draws on our previous understanding of the character, so that when she talks of “the dress"” everyone knows it is a wedding dress, just as we understand that the