What's the Story?

I believe Charles Dickens wrote Great Expections in hopes of encouraging readers to follow in the footsteps of Pip and choose who you want to be based off of what you think is really right. I think he wrote it to give the benefit of the doubt to human nature. Pip is given two main, male role models to try and model his own life after. One is truly good, while the other struggles greatly and battles his own evils. In analyzing the story, Dickens purposefully characterizes Pip's role models in a way that makes Pip decide which one of the men he turns into.