American Short Story Masterpieces
Why does the narrator of “The Scarlet Ibis” rename his little brother Doodle?
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Crawling backward made him look like a doodlebug, so I began to call him Doodle, and in time even Mama and Daddy thought it was a better name than William Armstrong.