Someone who miserably fails to move on (but she's just a literary character!)

Below is a posting of an article that underwent so many changes ever since I decided to write an article on a highly intriguing character I met in my daily readings. As such, I was inspired to share a deleted article that editors from another site where I keep a portfolio of articles have decided to be of poor quality. I've since then re-edited it again, but only to have it deleted one more time. And I had to ask someone in the same site to help me out, where in the process I also had to pour out my heart-felt pain from having a beloved ('you can only imagine how much effort I put into writing down these works you see all the time when I promote them for internet juice' LOL) article deleted. Yes, I can't help but take these things personally. My articles are my babies, in so many respects. And I've since then taken steps to move on from the horrendous experience. In the meantime, I discovered that the topic of the said article happens to be talking about some character (from a work of fiction, at that!) who fails to move on with her life (in fiction). Ms. Havisham's such an intriguing character; I almost became like her when I hesitated at first to move on from my mistakes and let go of those silly things I faced one time or so just hours (or days, by the time you read this) ago. 

BTW, below's the character from a YouTube vid:

And here are the clips from BBC, if you're curious about how the novel appears on screen.

Finally, here's that said article:

You get intrigued by Ms. Havisham in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' and your questions about her would remain unanswered even after you've done reading  the book. Although not the main protagonist, her image keeps on coming back in your mind as she would play a very pivotal role in the novel. In those days, novels would be published in installments, with each chapter released after a certain period (which can be a week or so), and which was the case with 'Great Expectations.'  Ms. Havisham's character probably kept lingering in the minds of readers in those old days as she would be shown having the main keys that would open the directions of the lives of the other leading characters.  For example, she would have the wealth that Pip (the main character) erroneously thought and greatly expected would be handed over to him when he ventured to become better educated after having received money from an unknown benefactor.
Cinematic-like, eccentric quality of her character
Similar to an assembly of other characters a reader has encountered in many other books or even that stereotyped character faced by a moviegoer on big screen, your imagination will make her almost alive. Imagine a woman whose groom didn't show up in their wedding and had decided since then to freeze that period in her life. She would eventually hurt herself from attempting to burn down her bedroom. She could easily be among those living ghosts people see in haunted places or even those zombies who come alive in many movies. And Ms. Havisham would even have certain people she would choose selectively to see her in her wedding gown and only in the confines of her enormous bedroom. And she would get away with it because she would be relentlessly pursuing what she wanted for the rest of her life, and without consideration of what others would be thinking about her eccentricities.
Manipulative
Among the list of top contending intriguing characters you'll meet from novels, her apparent motivation in living her mature life would be to manipulate all characters around her. She would be in this path after grasping from events in her life that her no-show groom-to-be (who also had a dubious character) had collaborated with others to merely get huge amounts of money from her (and nothing else). She would be using her inherited wealth from her businessman-father to meet all her whims and caprices; she'd be enkindled by her dismal failure to move on with her life. And everybody else would have to kowtow before her so she would remain forever frozen in that petrifying period when her groom didn't show up in their wedding.
You see her traits among certain people you meet in life. They can probably include your bosses who are so exploitative in their dealings with you, your siblings (if you have one) who could be petty when attempting to get something valuable from you just because they're not leading happy lives, your co-workers who just deal with you because they could still get something material from you and not mainly because they care at all about your growth and development as a person, among so many others probable scenarios. Ms. Havisham is almost the epitome of someone whose manipulations turned into a well-crafted art. But at the end, she'd come to realize that all her efforts in manipulating people's lives would come to nil. For example, she would realize to her utter amazement that Pip's a genuinely kind-hearted person who's remained grateful for the opportunities he received early on in his life from her.
User
Ms. Havisham is the supreme example of a character who can be described as a 'user,' who is the disgusting type people would meet once or in many occasions in their lives. She would be mainly motivated by her interests in using people around her to meet her purposes, trivial and important ones included. She used Estella, her adopted daughter, and molded her according to her plans to take revenge to people whom she felt so sure would just take advantage of Estella's innocence and beauty. She molded her, almost as a complete reflection of her young self. She would entice her with wealth so that Estella would follow and pursue what she wanted for her when she would grow up into a mature adult. Also, she would use Pip's presence in her mansion so that she would have her kind of amusement and entertainment, and would treat him as 'something' to experiment on with her plans to take revenge. She would be using many other characters to make them follow exactly what she wanted for the remainder of her life.
Someone you would have loved to save from eternal damnation
Ms. Havisham's fate could have been saved for the better but it would be too late. She happened not to have met a lot of people who would face her straight up and would persuade her about other certain truths in life, like the values of love, of being genuine, and of being brave. She could have been taught to learn to forgive herself and others who offended her, and move on. But these features were reserved for the main character, Mr. Pip.  She would seem to have realized her follies toward the end as she would eventually die after being inflamed as she inflicted more hurts to herself by attempting to burn down her room.
It's almost too bad that Ms. Havisham didn't become the main protagonist in 'Great Expectations.' She would have been a very fascinating character that many people these days could identify or relate with, given the kind of news commonly shown on TV and the like.