Pride can be a very destructive force. In The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst suggests that the narrator is guilty of Doodle’s death because he never really liked Doodle. He always thought Doodle was a disappointment. I believe that the narrator was guilty because he didn’t like Doodle. He always seemed like he was kind of mad at him. One reason I say this is because it states that “So I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (345). That doesn't sound like brotherly love to me. This clearly shows that he hated Doodle because he wanted to kill his own brother. It also states that “When Doodle was 5 years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother who couldn’t walk” (346). He clearly didn’t like him because he was