Was the narrator responsible for Doodle’s death? Yes the narrator was responsible for Doodle’s death. His one and only brother, as the binning he wanted him to die, he was a cruel brother to Doodle. Doodle wouldn 't have died if the narrator would have not left him places, threaten to do things to Doodle since he could not walk, and try to give discipline to him that was actual child cruelty. What the narrator did proved to be for his own selfish ways, and did not think about Doodle’s feelings in these situations. The narrator pushed Doodle to the point where Doodle could not handle it anymore and his fragile body ended up dying. When Doodle fell to the ground trying to walk the narrator did not try to help him, he wanted him to learn how to