# Old Honest — The Pilgrim’s Progress character guide

> Old Honest in The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** old Honest, Honest, Mr. Honest, old Mr. Honest

**First appearance:** 0005-the-second-part

## Snapshot

A white-haired pilgrim whose plain truth-telling shames the liars and flatterers, he joins Christiana's band late and becomes its conscience.

## Who they are

Old Honest arrives with the gravity of a man who has outlived his own follies and now speaks only what he has tested. He is not the fastest walker in the company, but his word is the one the others trust when the road forks and the talk turns slippery. His presence reminds the group that integrity is not a young man's ornament but an old man's scar.

## In the story

### [The Author’s Way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pilgrim_s_progress_se/chapters/the-author-s-way-of-sending-forth-his-second-part-of-the-pilgrim)

An aged pilgrim with white hairs, described as plain-hearted and bearing his cross after the Lord.

### [The Second Part](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pilgrim_s_progress_se/chapters/the-second-part)

A fellow pilgrim who joins Great-heart in fighting Giant Despair.

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