In the last paragraph, the officer wants to make himself not being despite by local and that’s the main reason cause him to shoot that elephant to cheer those local up. He successfully reaches it, but the owner is the one paying the price for his target, the officer was excluding by local, and that’s why he trying to persuade himself that he has done a right thing in legal way and old man’s opinion even though he knows it’s not morally correct to kill that elephant. That’s why he feels glad about that die of the coolie for a reason to kill that elephant. This gladness is an evidence why he doing this not for himself or some right cause. This is a foolish act and he done it for not being a fool in other’s eye, which is sarcastic for him.
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