d is unable to complete his thought process or his visit to the grave site. Dickens uses Pips youth and inexperience as a way of enabling Pips inability to find venality in what he sees. Pip enters Satis House he finds Miss Havisham sitting at a fine ladys dressing-table with her head leaning on that hand covered with bright jewels that sparkled. Pip senses something is wrong, and he notices Miss Havisham has but one shoe on--[while] the other was on the table near her hand (52). Pip continues to be mesmerized by Miss Havisham and her possessions, including Estella. When Pip receives the details surrounding Miss Havishams awkward appearance, he fails to recognize that it is her wealth and position that caused her to be corrupted. Compeyson uses Miss Havisham for her money. Instead of accepting her mistake and moving on with her life, she literally stops the hands of time and starts to seek revenge. Miss Havisham has Pip kiss [her] hand as if [she] were a queen (219). She becomes the ruler of Pips heart and makes Pip her unknowing martyr when she deliberately toys with his emotions towards Estella and dupes him into believing that he might be able to have her. He doesnt realize until he meets up with Magwitch in London that Miss Havisham has been using him.Dickens also uses hand imagery with other characters to show that wealth and position are corrupting. Belinda Pocket is so perverted by a nonsensical consciousness of her rightful social rank (Hynes 260) that she is unable to care for her children. Dickens shows Mrs. Pocket as being highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless when she continually drops her handkerchief and has her servant pick it up for her. Pip sees the uselessness of both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket when he says, they had such a noticeable air of being in somebody elses hands that I wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there, until I found this unknown power to be the ser...
