Miss Havisham “was dressed in rich fabric: satins, laces and silks,” which “had been white long ago, and had lost [its] splendor, and [is ] faded and yellow” (57.58). Miss Havisham's “once white dress, all yellow and withered” drapes her “horrible waxwork” of “yellow skin and bones” (89,58,86). She is “a skeleton in the ashes” “of the frills and trimmings of her wedding dress, [which] seem like earthy paper” (58.60). Miss Havisham's wedding dress swallows her wizened figure, and she "[has] no brightness but that of her sunken eyes" (58). According to Bert Hornbeck, world-famous literary critic, “white at the beginning represented innocence and purity” just as a white wedding dress should, but the transition of the dress from white to yellow alludes to “decay of innocence and purity” (216). Withered and worn like her clothes, Miss Havisham is burying herself alive by stopping time and hiding in her house. Her yellow and tarnished wedding dress is like her funeral dress, her veil is like the shroud, and her house is like the dark chest. He has frozen time and no longer lives in his stagnant state. In her place of stagnation, she is eaten alive by the pain inflicted on her by a man just as the mice have gnawed at the house and gnawed at her (Dickens 89). As represented through her