In furtherance of Miss Havisham's diabolic plan to wreak vengeance on all men for the humiliation she suffered at the hands of Compeyson who cheated her on her wedding day Estella, on her return from France as an elegant lady is to stay in Mrs.Bandley's (a former friend of Miss Havisham) home in Richmond on the outskirts of London city. Ch.33.
Pip, however,foolishly imagines that Miss Havisham has transformed Estella into an elegant lady to prepare her to become his wife and becomes passionately infatuated with her: "my spirit was always wandering,wandering, wandering about that house." Ch.38.
Estella, on the contrary, uses Pip only as a means of making all her other admirers jealous by pretending to be intimate with Pip while in private she would remain aloof and cold towards him. Although Pip spent a lot of his time with her,he confesses dejectedly that "they were all miseries to me. I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and -twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death." Ch.38.
Pip's conditon in Ch.38 could be termed as pathetic, because time and again Estella warns him not to fall in love with her: "will you never take warning?"Ch.38. Pip is blind in two ways: 1. he fails to recognise that Estella is actually Molly's daughter and 2. that Estella is only a puppet in the hands of Miss Havisham to take revenge on all men.
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