Doe season

In the story Doe Season Andy finds comfort in the woods, “They were the same woods that lay behind her house, and they stretched for miles all the way to here…” (456). The woods to Andy were familiar and safe to her just as her childhood has been. When she thought of the woods it “made her feel good; it was like thinking of God;” (456), which made Andy, feel the comfort and reassurance. Then things in the woods started reminding her of the ocean, “Blowing through the treetops, it sounded like the ocean, and once Andy thought she could smell salt air.” (457).
She had very different feelings about the ocean than she did the woods, the first time she had seen the ocean “it frightened her.” (459). She described the ocean as “huge and empty, yet always moving. Everything lay hidden…” (459). The ocean was like adulthood, both unknown and frightening for her, the way she feels about each the ocean and the woods shows the transition she has to make from childhood to adulthood.
-Colleen