Compare Odysseus' trait of pride to that of another person's pride, be it a fictional character or real-life person.

Odysseus, for my money, is the greatest literary character
of all time and has no equal.  Seriously, I can't think of anyone, real or fictitious,
who is worthy of comparison.  He has all the qualities of all the genres and archetypes
of literature: he's a mythical hero, a romantic hero, and an almost tragic
hero.

Odysseus suffers from hubris,
excessive pride.  This is what nearly every tragic hero in literature suffers (Hamlet,
Oedipus, and Frankenstein), so take your pick.  But, they all die or blind themselves or
go crazy at the end from hubris.  Not
Odysseus.

What separates Odysseus from them is that he
learns to control it.  Through suffering, he realizes that his
hubris leads to his men's deaths and getting further from home and
wife.  So, he balances his hubris with humility.  Through
syphrosine (restraint) he learns to achieve balance, the
epos megan ("golden mean").  As such, Odysseus turns from an
alazon (person who thinks he is better than he really is) to an
eiron (person who does not think he is worthy).  Only then can he
appease Poseidon and see the shores of Ithaca.

So,
characters who make this transformation and thus avoid tragedy are usually epic heroes.
 Beowulf is very similar, though he doesn't suffer nearly as much as  Odysseus.  Maybe
Job from the Bible?  But he's never as arrogant as Odysseus.  Many have suffered from
pride, but few have learned from the suffering it incurs and lived to tell the
tale.

Good question.  And good
luck!