This sounds crazy, but I'm a great fan of Dickens, and whenever I hear this song, I think of Miss Havisham. Especially at the beginning part of it. To all who are unaquainted with Miss Havisham, she is a character in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (a very good novel, by the way.) She was jilted on her wedding day as a young girl, and her heart was broken. She stopped all of the clocks in her house at the time she was jilted, shut up all the windows, and left everything just as it was. As an old lady, she sits in her wedding dress and veil, the wedding feast still sitting out, rotten, in the dining room, and meanwhile exacts her revenge on men with her beautiful, unattainable adopted daughter, Estella. Eleanor Rigby's lonliness and her constant sort of waiting state always bring Miss Havisham to mind. So there! By reading this post you got one bibliophile's strange opinion and a literature lesson all in one!
This sounds crazy, but I'm a great fan of Dickens, and whenever I hear this song, I think of Miss Havisham. Especially at the beginning part of it. To all who are unaquainted with Miss Havisham, she is a character in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (a very good novel, by the way.) She was jilted on her wedding day as a young girl, and her heart was broken. She stopped all of the clocks in her house at the time she was jilted, shut up all the windows, and left everything just as it was. As an old lady, she sits in her wedding dress and veil, the wedding feast still sitting out, rotten, in the dining room, and meanwhile exacts her revenge on men with her beautiful, unattainable adopted daughter, Estella. Eleanor Rigby's lonliness and her constant sort of waiting state always bring Miss Havisham to mind. So there! By reading this post you got one bibliophile's strange opinion and a literature lesson all in one!
@RosesAndRuffles I thouht the same thing. Cobwebs and dust.
@RosesAndRuffles I thouht the same thing. Cobwebs and dust.