Question

Excerpt from Great Expectations
By Charles wingspanens

In the following excerpt, Pip, a young boy, meets Miss Havisham, an elderly woman who has invited Pip to play with her young female companion.

Answer 1

"Who is it?" said the lady at the table.
"Pip, ma'am."
"Pip?"
"Mr. Pumblechook's boy, ma'am. Come—to play."
"Come nearer; let me look at you. Come close"
It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
"Look at me," said Miss Havisham. "You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?"
I regret to state that I was not afraid of telling the enormous lie comprehended in the answer "No."
"Do you know what I touch here?" she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side.
"Yes ma'am." (It made me think of the young man.)
"What do I touch?"
"Your heart."
"Broken!"
She uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it. Afterwards she kept her hands there for a little while, and slowly took them away as if they were heavy.
"I am tired," said Miss Havisham. "I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play."
I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
"I sometimes have sick fancies," she went on, "and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. There, there!" with an impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand; "play, play, play!"

Answer 2

Which line from the text most clearly reveals a key aspect of Miss Havisham's character?

"'Do you know what I touch here?' she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side."

"I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances."

"Afterwards, she kept her hands there for a little while, and slowly took them away as if they were heavy."

"Look at me," said Miss Havisham. "You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?"

Answer 3

@just_one_last_goodbye
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Answer 4

@Samip03

Answer 5

I would say D.

Answer 6

thanks

Answer 7

You're welcome :)