"Doe Season" #3

In the short story "Doe Season", Andy is a young girl who is going through some changes in her life. There comes a time in everyone's life when things start to change, whether we like it or not. Andy doesn't seem to realize in the beginning of the story that things will be changing. The changes kind of come to her all at once in the end. I think thats how change happens many times. She puts a lot of emphasis on the way the woods are always the same in the beginning of the story. She describes them as going on forever and "The thought made her feel good (456)", this seems to mean a lot to her and suggests that she likes things to be constant.
The ocean seems to be a mystery to her and thats why she doesn't like it. Many people are afraid of what they don't know. The woods reminds her of the ocean in a way "The wind . . . Blowing through the treetops, it sounded like the ocean (459)," this could be pointing to the fact that her life will change in the woods and she doesn't know it yet. The woods ended up being the place where a drastic change happened in her life. She thought she was safe there, but she had no idea what would happen. When she ended up shooting the doe, it pushed her right from childhood into adulthood.