Estella - Miss Havisham's beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip's unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and disinterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart. Though she does not know it herself--and though Pip does not learn it until almost the end of the novel--Estella is the daughter of Magwitch, the convict Pip aids as a child. Through the intercession of the lawyer Jaggers, she is adopted by Miss Havisham, who raises Estella into a life of wealth and social status for her own ulterior motives.Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip's village. She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty till nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was left at the altar on her wedding day, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella as the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men's hearts....
