How can Dewitt Gifford be compared to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations?

In Nightwork, Dewitt Gifford, an aging homosexual who entombs himself in the family house overlooking the dried up creek, is a symbol of a decaying paternalist ideology. He demands and buys "protection" from the very gangs which his family have helped create by their exploitive development of the slum, Gifford Gardens. Like Miss Havisham in Dickens's Great Expectations (1860-1861), Gifford is a manipulative voyeur: protecting while exploiting his domination of people and property.