According to Mahatma Gandhi, “Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up,” the short story “The Scarlett Ibis,” by James Hurst tells a story about how the narrator’s pride led him to kill his young brother indirectly. The author uses pride as the central theme of the story to tell that since the pride inside of the narrator make him taste the taste of success, his pride is already beginning to turn to spite, and foreshadow a tragedy.
The narrator’s embarrassment of his young brother lead him to teach his brother to walk, and the success makes him selfish. In the story, it writes, “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him”