In the short story “The Rich Brother”, by Tobias Wolff (1985), Pete is the older brother and is always looking out for his little brother, Donald. The author symbolizes tough love between the two brothers, and portrays Pete as the bad guy because he tries to help little brother, Donald grow up. At the end of the day, Pete just wants what’s best for his little brother, even if tough love doesn’t work. While Pete loves his brother, he doesn’t trust Donald. As stated in the book he was going to just send Donald money for a bus ticket but then decided to just drive to get him, because Donald would “try hitchhiking to save the bus fare”. On the way back to Pete’s place Donald is telling Pete everything that happened at the farm, and Pete just laughs at Donald’s stupidity. Donald starts talking about the past and refers to this one particular time when Pete was mad that he had to help Donald with everything he needed, because of a surgery. Pete tried to kill Donald every chance he got after that. Pete gets pissed at Donald and snaps off on him, for minor things. They got into an argument and then Pete left him there on the side of the interstate. Pete tries to be tough in order to show his brother Donald he needs to grow up, in Pete’s eyes the way to get through to Donald is tough love. “Pete prospered and Donald did not prosper” is what Pete is trying to explain to Donald to make him grow up. Pete is shaping Donald into a grown up in the best way he knows how, tough love. Even though tough love doesn’t work, time after time, Pete keeps trying. Pete refuses to give up on his brother. The first point that shows how Pete teaches tough love to his brother is not trusting Donald. Pete straightforward told Donald “I’ll drive and come get you instead of sending you bus fare”. I have three brothers myself and trust can be an issue. But with trust comes love, and if you don’t trust it’s like calling them a screw-