Facing humiliation will only make a person braver. Along with being aggressive, the narrator exhibits selfishness in the short story. Before training Doodle how to walk, the narrator was embarrassed that he had a brother who couldn’t walk at the age of five. Since he was embarrassed, his motive was to give instruction to Doodle on how to walk (Hurst). The narrator exposed himself when he revealed: “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him”(Hurst 466). The narrator is teaching Doodle to walk for his own intentions. If Doodle does learn to walk, it’s going to help him in the future but the narrator doesn’t appear interested in that. Selfishness in the short
