Question

In the Passage, why would Miss Havisham's

Answer 1

Answer:

3. She would be publicly humiliated.

Explanation:

Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations tells the story of an orphan boy named Pip. Despite his childhood of poverty, through a secret benefactor, he became a respectable gentleman and came back for Estella.

Miss Havisham is the guardian of Estella. Pip had visited them when he was a young boy. In Chapter XXII, Mr. Herbert was telling Pip about Miss Havisham who had been engaged to be married to a man named Compeyson. But on the day of their wedding, the groom sent a note telling her that he will not be present for the wedding. This event would have embarrassed her, more like left her mortified so much that she did not even move out of the house or seen the sun. She even set the time of her clocks to the exact time she was jilted- "twenty minutes to nine". This experienced would have publicly humiliated her, for a woman during the Victorian era.

Thus, the correct answer is option 3.