Neely Crenshaw Character Analysis

Everyone has pride B y swallowing, getting over, or pushing it aside; everybody has pride. However, some people let that get in the way of their life, eventually swallowing them whole. With Neely Crenshaw, his embarrassment of not winning that Heisman trophy, along with his pride, kept him from returning to his hometown. The same hometown that gave him his pride, making him think he was a hot shot quarterback and nothing bad would ever happen to him. When he came back to honor his coach, his old football pal Paul Curry, had to remind him to move on.
When Neely and Paul were in high school, they were “practically unstoppable.” (Grisham 13). They were best friends, co-captains, and a force to be reckoned with on the field. A major difference between Paul and Neely is how they both moved on from the Messina Spartan Dynasty. For Paul, he married a prominent, local girl from town, and settled down. Neely however, decided to play college football, and attempt to stretch out his legacy as a football star. In high school, he had his pick of the girls, the teachers cut him slack for his grades, and the law did not apply to him. He was the king of Messina, everybody loved him. Why would he just stop his kingdom in high school? College football

Pride has played its role in this process. He let his enormous pride get the best of him and he cheated on Cameron with Screamer. He did not even think how Cameron would react, nor at the time did he care. He thought he was king and everyone else bows to him, listens to him, and loves him. He let it get in the way of where he chose to school, letting the most money define his worth. When Texas Tech offered him fifty thousand dollars to play football there, how could he turn that down? It showed he was worth that much money, and worth more than everyone else. He assumed he was higher than everyone else, better than everyone else, and more important than everyone