In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, it states, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow,” (1). In other words, he was self-centered and didn’t care about helping his brother. The only thing he cared about was someone to play with. “One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die,” the narrator said on page 2. This tells the reader that he didn’t care about his brother’s feelings, when he made his brother go look and touch his own coffin. Doodle was so scared that he got paralyzed, because his heartbeat sped up too much. The narrator used negative pride by being self-centered and cruel to Doodle. In conclusion, the narrator uses both positive and negative pride in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis.” The narrator is both caring and self-centered, because he was happy when his brother smiled for the first time, but he wanted a normal brother to play with. These are some reasons why, “pride is a wonderful, terrible
In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, it states, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow,” (1). In other words, he was self-centered and didn’t care about helping his brother. The only thing he cared about was someone to play with. “One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die,” the narrator said on page 2. This tells the reader that he didn’t care about his brother’s feelings, when he made his brother go look and touch his own coffin. Doodle was so scared that he got paralyzed, because his heartbeat sped up too much. The narrator used negative pride by being self-centered and cruel to Doodle. In conclusion, the narrator uses both positive and negative pride in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis.” The narrator is both caring and self-centered, because he was happy when his brother smiled for the first time, but he wanted a normal brother to play with. These are some reasons why, “pride is a wonderful, terrible