"Doe Season"

The blood that is in the story represents of course the death of a deer and the running of purity and innocence. But another theme is that Andy is growing up and turning into a woman. The blood would represent menstruation and the change of life. She was scared of the death of the deer because she saw what was really inside of the life she has taken. The blood must scare her because she has not accepted all the change that she is going through. She must feel that she has made a grown up choice to shoot a deer and watch it bleed, there for she ran away and did not answer to Andy any more.