Pip’s relationship with Estella begins as playmates, arranged by Miss Havisham. Pip learns eventually that Miss Havisham’s plan is to train Estella to break men’s hearts as a means of revenge for her own broken engagement on the day of her wedding. Estella treats Pip cruelly, making fun of him for his working class ways. Yet Pip falls in love with her, despite the hurt he feels.
When they have grown up and Pip goes to live in London and become a gentleman, Estella treats him more kindly but only as a friend. Pip sees her as his ideal, but she is more interested in finding a gentleman, which she cannot accept that Pip is becoming. It is possible that, since the two of them have now become friends, Estella does not want to break his heart, despite Miss Havisham’s intentions.
After Pip finds that Miss Havisham is not his benefactor, nor did she ever intend for him to be Estella’s husband, Pip and Estella move apart. Pip no longer feels that he can be the type of gentleman that Estella desires, and Estella marries Bentley Drummle. After several years, Estella and Pip meet. Estella’s marriage, which had been abusive, is ended with Drummle’s death. This gives a hint of a promise that Estella and Pip will get together, accepting each other for what the other is, perhaps with a happy ending.
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