There has been a few things that I have not understood in the book, but the one that stands out to me most is how Estella can be so rude and not even think about Pip's feelings. She did not like Pip from the beginning just because he was "common". It's obvious that Miss Havisham doesn't want Estella to like Pip because she did tell her to break his heart, for her own purposes, but that doesn't mean Estella has to listen. When Estella says, "Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in,I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no-sympathy-sentiment-nonsense." (238), she is saying that she has a heart, but its just filling a place in her chest that's practically empty. But she has to have some softness and sympathy just for telling Pip that, she just chooses to hide it so she doesn't seem weak. She's giving Pip a reason, where if she didn't have any sympathy and softness she would just keep hurting Pip with no reason for it. Why would she not want to seem weak? Nobody would hold anything against her, so what's the point?