Doe Season

The woods suggests that Andy's childhood was "always the same" for miles and miles. As she transitions into her adulthood her life would become huge and empty, yet always moving. As stated in paragraph 45 "She and her parents had gone last summer to stay for a week at a motel on the New Jersey shore. That was the first time she'd seen the ocean, and it frightened her." This is also brought up after she shoots the deer. As a child begins to grow, life starts to throw you different things and many different "hurddles" arise. The blood supports the story's initial theme of being scared. Growing up as a child there are many things that scare different people. After Andy shoot's the deer, she is scared initially. She has a nightmare that night but the next day they find the deer and she is no longer scared. Another theme that they may be suggesting is menstration.