Death of a Naturalist Innocence Quotes

You can tell the speaker's innocence by how he refers to the male frog as "daddy" and the female as "mammy." He's probably pretty young, and may even still refer to his parents as "daddy" and "mammy."

You get the idea that maybe our speaker hasn't heard a lot of things before. He's young, he's innocent, and chances are he has many new experiences ahead of him.

Whatever he sees—frogs mating, or just so many frogs croaking and hopping around all at once—he's not sticking around for the second act. It's too much for our speaker's innocent eyes, and it upsets him to the point of having to flee the scene.