Often when looking at a story our teachers tell us to find the ‘deeper meaning’ when there is nothing in sight; however James Hurst “The Scarlet Ibis” the deeper meaning shown in plain sight is the brothers' pride and willingness to go just too far. The brother who has not been named has a younger brother, William Armstrong (Doodle). His younger brother is disabled, which leads to the brother letting his pride get the best of him for too long, resulting in unchangeable damage, because all he wants is a “normal” younger brother. This story can take in certain lenses of all kinds, however preferably one of the best lenses is the psychoanalytic lens. While looking into this lens, we see the brothers' pride taking advantage over Doodle. His impulsive part of his brain subconsciously takes over accomplishing desires he wishes to fulfill, which leads to tragedy.…show more content… Through the whole story, the older brother seems to be kind, helpful, that thing Doodle needs to actually try. However, that is just not the case. When taking a deeper look into all of these categories, we see he is doing more harm than good. But why is that the case? That is because when you look at it Doodle has been discouraged all his life saying he will never be able to, while that is negative he is disabled he wasn't meant to. Yes he could, but the older brother went about it in a bad way, speeding it up, hoping he was done with the “training” before school was over. Paragraph # states, "Aw, come on, Doodle." You can do it, too. Do you want to be different from everybody else when you start school? This shows us part of his pride. Also, this tells us as the readers he just wants a normal brother. He let his desires get a hold of him, showing his pride- the first of many attempts to get him to push
