"Doe Season"

“Doe Season” by David Kaplan
This story is about a father taking his daughter on a deer hunting trip with friends. The friends throughout this story don’t think that a girl should be hunting. Andy must make a decision of being a girl or a boy. She recalls the woods and then she thinks about the sea which means different things to her.
Andy found the woods to be a great place to walk and spot animals. She thought, “the woods are the same and they stretch all the way to here.” (Doe season) This thought made her feel good and then she thought of God. I think this good feeling represents her childhood because it relaxes her to think the woods are the same. At this point she doesn’t need to make a decision to grow up or choose who she will be. She is comfortable thinking she will be the same no matter what she does or where she goes.
Andy did not like the thought of the ocean. “it frightened her. It was huge and empty, yet always moving.” (Doe season) The thought of the ocean is a change, the thought of growing up or becoming something different. She was afraid of feeling empty, yet in the last paragraph this is how she felt.