Sunday, 10 August 2008

In Great Expectations, how does Estella treat Pip when they meet?

Estella
treats Pip very scornfully when they first meet. They first encounter one another when she lets
him into Satis Hall, where he has come to meet Miss Havisham. From the start, Estella seems
haughty and proud. She makes no effort to smile or be pleasant, and she calls Pip
"boy" over and over, although they seem to be the same age. As Pip recounts:


She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful
and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a
queen.

Estella has been raised to be...

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