Sunday, 1 May 2016

Describe Miss Havisham and her house from Great Expectations.

Miss
Havisham is an eccentric old lady who is always dressed in her wedding dress.  She is described
as being "faded" - everything about her is old and decaying.  Her hair is white and
wreathed with wilted flowers, and her clothing hangs on her withered body and is stained and
yellowed with age. Mrs. Havisham had once planned to be married, but she was jilted at the
altar, and she has left everything in her house exactly the way it was on what was to have been
her wedding day. 

Mrs. Havisham's estate is unkempt and overgrown, and the
house is dismal and closed up with iron bars.  The...

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