Miss Havisham is described as being a ghost.

Miss Havisham is pleased with Estella’s behaviour because Estella’s behaviour is having the exact effect on men that Miss Havisham desired. All men seem to fall in love, or are attracted to, Estella and then they become jealous as they see her with other men and feel they can’t have her entirely.

Pip finally realises what we have known all along – that Estella “was set to wreak Miss Havisham’s revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to [Pip] until she had gratified it full term.” He finally becomes aware that Estella is Miss Havisham’s tool to hurt all men and was never destined to marry him.

Pip learns that Estella is incapable of love whilst at Satis house visiting.

Pip is infatuated with Estella. He will take any form of attention from her, even when it drives him mad with jealousy. He knows she is playing him and her other suitors off one another, but he would rather take any form of attention at all from her than none.