- "At any particular time, Miss Havisham?" / "There, there! I know nothing about times. Let him come soon, and come alone with you." (p. 97)
Miss Havisham's refusal to give a specific time indicates that she never cared to know what time it was. Every clock in the house was stopped at "twenty minutes until nine" -- this was the time that Miss Havisham was informed her husband-to-be rejected their marriage. Charles Dickens illustrates Miss Havisham's denial by stopping the clocks, an attempt to cease time and leave everything unchanging, like the way it was before/on her wedding day. Miss Havisham believes this strange action will possibly lead her husband to accept her love and return to marry her.
Photo Credit:
Clock 8:40. Photograph.
Clipart. Web. 3 Jan. 2010. http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/33300/33394/clock-08-40_33394_md.gif.
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