But when she was gone, I looked about me for a place to hide my face in, and got behind one of the gates in the brewery-lane, and leaned my sleeve against the wall there, and leaned my forehead on it and cried. As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 8. We see the effect that Miss Havisham and adopted daughter Estella have on the uneducated and unsophisticated boy from the country. Pip kicks a wall, twists his hair and cries after Estella leaves him food in the yard as if she is feedings a dog. Pip feels unequal as the class difference between him and Estella is brutally highlighted.