Pride in Greenleaf Horses and Spotted Horses Pride is a feeling that most people in the world have always shared. Pride can be a great thing to have, but when a person is too proud, the situation becomes very different. Pride can cause a person to do things they would not do under normal circumstances, and it can cause a person unhappiness. Mrs. May in "Greenleaf" and Henry Armstid in "Spotted Horses" both have a sad kind of pride that leads to early death and disappearance. In Henry's case, his pride is the direct cause of the injuries caused by the horses, and Mrs. May's is a little more indirect. In “Greenleaf,” Mrs. May thought it was. a blessing to the world. He thought that everything good that happened was his doing and that everything he did was good. At one point in the story she says, "I work and I slave and I struggle and I sweat to keep this place for them and as soon as I'm dead they'll marry the garbage and bring it here and ruin everything. They'll marry the garbage and ruin everything I've done." ." Even though she hates the dairy farm and her two children aren't up to her standards, she still has a sense of pride in them that makes her so concerned about what she has done for them. The bull, an important symbol of what Mrs May cannot control, winds through the story and clashes and conflicts with her pride. The two are intertwined: she constantly visualizes and hears the bull during the day and sleeps in one of her dreams talks about being "aware that whatever it was, it had eaten as long as it had the place and had eaten everything from the beginning of the pen to the house and now it was eating the house and would calmly in the same steady pace continue throughout the house, eating her and the boys, and then off, eating everything except the Greenleafs." The bull symbolizes what she cannot do in life, what she cannot control and what she has not done, and it is what makes her take the last step before death, bringing out her pride and causing her to try to take the control over the unknown, over herself. She is then gored to death by the bull, and this shows that she shouldn't have worried her whole life about her pride, what she had done, and what she ultimately couldn't control..