“I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 29. The damage of the psychological abuse of Miss Havisham’s upbringing of Estella is made clear here. Explaining her emotionally detached and hardened nature, Estella tells Pip that she has never showed tender feelings to anyone, because she never experienced tenderness. This is an indictment on Miss Havisham’s neglectful parenting, of which Estella is a victim.