When Doodle finally walks, Brother waltzes Aunt Nicey around the room for a brief joyful moment. Look at the line. What happens to end their joyful dance? Symbolically, what’s interesting about this supposedly light-hearted moment?

When they are dancing happily together, Aunt Nicey steps on his big toe and the happiness stops and he's in lasting pain... although this dancing moment seems so good and sweet, the saying that all good things have an ending and that some things are too good to be true. Things were still not "perfect" and Doodle was being exploited by his brother.