Walter says that pride is "old time stuff". what would walter consider modern day thinking?

When Walter says that pride is old-fashioned, he thinks that doing only those things on joe can be proud and no other is an old-fashioned way of thinking. A modern way of thinking implies, according to Walter, that pride has nothing to do with achieving goals. You can work and use whatever you have to accomplish what you want. There is no sense of pride or harm to it. Pride is an outdated category to be rejected.

is this from a story?

if so, can you tell which one?

~courtney