What does the cake most likely symbolize?

What the cake most likely symbolizes is Holding on to the past

Explanation:

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Read this excerpt from Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations:

The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it. . . . An épergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable. . . . "What do you think that is?" she asked me, again pointing with her stick; "that, where those cobwebs are?" . . . "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" What does the cake most likely symbolize?

A. Letting go of bad memories

B. Thinking about the future

C. Holding on to the past

D. Remembering happy occasions

The scene that Pip can see in the room as he enters and sees all of the objects covered with dust, is that this is a representation of the negative of Miss Havisham to let go on her past, he worships her memories of her youth, all of the happy moments are the in this decaying table with a rotten feast, it is her way to keep her past alive.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,