Have you ever heard the phrase, too much of a good thing? Well, it's true especially in stories about excessive pride. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author James Hurst takes us into a fictional tale of tragedy with the lives of two boys. The two boys are brothers and one is perfectly healthy, while the other one is terribly crippled. The older brother tries to turn his old worn out doll of a bother into a mighty boy, however their hopes were crushed when he died. When the older brother found out that his younger brother Doodle will be crippled, his pride could not handle such of an embarrassment. The older brother’s excessive pride ends up killing the younger brother Doodle. Pride can always be a good thing, unless it is overused.
