estella

• First meeting between Pip and Estella at Satis House


  They play cards, Miss Havisham tells Estella she needs to break Pip's heart
• Pip: '"beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen."'
• Pip: '"beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen."'
• Estella's view of Pip


  She wants nothing to do with him only because he is not of the same social class as her
• Estella's view of Pip


  She wants nothing to do with him only because he is not of the same social class as her
• Estella: '"Why, he is a common labouring boy!"'
• Estella: '"Why, he is a common labouring boy!"'
• Estella: '"He calls the Knaves Jacks this boy"'
• Estella: '"she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy, labouring boy"'
• Estella: '"He calls the Knaves Jacks this boy"'
• Second meeting at Satis House


  Pip is paraded in front of a group of fawning, insincere relatives visiting Miss Havisham on her birthday. Estella slaps Pip.
• Estella: '"she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy, labouring boy"'
• Estella: '"you little coarse monster"'
• Second meeting at Satis House


  Pip is paraded in front of a group of fawning, insincere relatives visiting Miss Havisham on her birthday. Estella slaps Pip.
• Pip: '"I'll never cry for you again"'
• Estella: '"you little coarse monster"'
• Estella: '"Come here! You may kiss me, if you like"'
• Pip: '"I'll never cry for you again"'
• Pip: '"I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing."'
• Pip goes to Satis House after returning from London


  He sees Estella who has become a ravishing young woman. Despite his fortune, he still feels inadequate to her.
• Estella: '"Come here! You may kiss me, if you like"'
• Pip: '"I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing."'
• Pip: '"she had taken such strong possession of me"'
• Pip goes to Satis House after returning from London


  He sees Estella who has become a ravishing young woman. Despite his fortune, he still feels inadequate to her.
• Pip: '"the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me"'
• Pip: '"I slipped hopelessly back into the coarse and common boy again"'
• Pip: '"she had taken such strong possession of me"'
• Pip: '"so much more beautiful, so much more womanly"'
• Pip: '"the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me"'
• Estella: '"I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt… But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense."'
• Pip: '"I slipped hopelessly back into the coarse and common boy again"'
• Pip and Estella see each other at Satis House, Pip learns she will marry Bentley Drummle


  Pip is full of hyperbolic language, but Estella's calmness and rationality juxtaposes this.
• Pip: '"so much more beautiful, so much more womanly"'
• Estella: '"her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance"'
• Estella: '"I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt… But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense."'
• Estella: '"Looking at me perfectly unmoved and with her fingers busy, she shook her head again"'
• Estella: '"that there are sentiments, fancies,—I don't know how to call them,—which I am not able to comprehend"'
• Pip and Estella see each other at Satis House, Pip learns she will marry Bentley Drummle


  Pip is full of hyperbolic language, but Estella's calmness and rationality juxtaposes this.
• Pip: '"You, so young, untried, and beautiful, Estella! Surely it is not in Nature."'
• Estella: '"her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance"'