Scarlet Ibis Character Analysis

Family is something people can’t pick and choose. In the Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst the narrator tries to change that. The narrator does very selfish things to please himself. He was very rude and reckless with his little brother Doodle. In the story the narrator is pushing his brother and bulling him until he finally has enough.
The first reason he is really rude to his brother is when he was little he wanted to kill Doodle. “I began to make plans to kill him by smoothing him with a pillow” (Hurst 595). This show that the narrator is very cruel to him in so many ways. One way was he hated Doodle so much that he wanted to kill him with a pillow. Doodle was only a small baby when the narrator wanted to do this. Also he wanted to do this because Doodle wasn’t his ideal brother. The narrator would also tell Doodle that he should be dead and remind him of his illness. “One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all believed he would die” (Hurst 597). Doodle was devastated when he found out. The narrator still was being rude to him. He told Doodle that he would have to touch his own coffin. He was mortified realizing that he should be dead in that casket and that made him feel like an outcast.
“I heard Doodle who had fallen behind, cry out, ‘Brother brother don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!’”(Hurst 604). When Doodle was over working himself be yelling with fear. He was already over worked by his brother so when he gave out and collapsed the narrator kept running and left Doodle behind. When the narrator went back for Doodle he found him by a tree dead. Finally the narrator has true concerns for his brother. The narrator was not a good brother to Doodle because he would try to change him for his own