Herbert Pocket

"I began to think with awe, of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackened his enterprising eye, and cut his responsible head open. But, again, there came upon me, for my relief, that odd impression that Herbert Pocket would never be very successful or rich." (Dickens 235).

Here is another example of Pip being too proud, and also an example of indirect foreshadowing. Dickens warns us against pride and greed and rashness in Great Expectations. Pip, here, is feeling proud that he once beat up Herbert Pocket and Miss Havisham's house. He also states his feeling that nothing great would come of Herbert, that he would never be "successful or rich," probably because he is, at the time, still getting his grounding in money-making, and "looking around him" before he makes any financial moves; thus he is as of yet not wealthy. However, later in the novel it is Herbert, not Pip, who ends up financially well-off, with a good job and a happy marriage.