Herbert, who serves as a contrasting character to Pip in the Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, also is the one who is accountable for turning Pip into a true gentleman. Herbert, as a character, is the most intimately close friend to Pip. Although Joe Gargery does have a special relation with Pip, Joe's relation with Pip is different from Herbert's relation with Pip in a sense that Joe is a guardian or father figure more …showed first 75 words of 1414 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1414 total…character that changed and matured the most, and that suddenly, Herbert and Pip seem to be more similar than ever. Dickens create a fabulous array of interesting characters in this novel - some daring, some hard to believe, some magical, some quite very pleasant - but to have an idea to create two such characters as Herbert and Pip, and then to mold them together as the story comes to an end, is truly genius.