I empathize with Brother in Scarlet Ibis. He had a brother who was mentally and physically disabled. Its is difficult to accept the reality that one has a brother like this. Although I empathize with him, I do not sympathize with him.If Brother really loves his brother, he should love him regardless of how disabled he is. He is partly responsible for his brother's death;he pushed his brother to do things which were very strenuous despite his brother's poor health.It was Brother's self-pride pride which killed Doodle. Brother could not accept that he had a brother who is disabled so he tried very hard to teach his brother to walk and then to run and row a boat.