Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers Essays

of her desire to live through her daughter Estella. Miss Havisham is selfish. This is not something the readers can tell right away, but as they move through the book it becomes increasingly obvious. She is not selfish in regards to her money or her possessions. She is selfish in the way she chose to raise Estella. She adopted and groomed her solely to become a revenge puppet, or