Great Expectations: Miss Havisham an Eccentric Character? Miss Havisham is an extremely eccentric character. She is a rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house. One way she was eccentric was the Satis House. Another is the weird birthday party Miss Havisham had with her relatives. She also acts in a weird way that tells her apart from the rest. Miss Havisham's house is a dark and spooky house. Inside the house all the furniture were antiques as well as the clocks. One of the strange things were that all the clocks in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine. Outside there was a pigeon