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Who Is Miss Havisham A Dynamic Character
Great Expectations (Prompt 2) Miss Havisham is a wealthy, but odd old lady who lives secluded with her daughter Estella Havisham. Miss Havisham was left at the altar by her fiance and lives her life dwelling in the past, hung up on losing the love of her life. She wears her wedding dress (that is now yellowing from age) and has every clock in her estate stopped at the exact minute that she found out that the man she loved, left her. The reader will quickly notice that Miss Havisham is a bit of a “fruit cake” as she is often hostile towards men and seeks her vengence on them for the loss of her fiance. She also wears only one shoe, b/c she found out about her husband-to-be leaving before she was able to put the other on. Miss Havisham
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