 Erb maintains that Pride is not attempting to cure a disease in others, but rather his own social disease that is chronic and psychological.The audience sees Pride continuously returning to different areas that are either representative of, or actually in, his past.Whether it is as Pride or Mr. Hyde, he visits these areas to reaffirm his own authentic blackness after crossing a societal boundary into the white professional class, where he is out of touch with the black people that he knew all of his life.