"Doe Season" Question 3

In the story “Doe Season” by David Kaplan a young girl named Andy mentioned in the beginning “They were always the same woods…They were the same woods that lay behind her house, and they stretch all the way to here, for mile and miles, longer than I could walk in a day, or a week even, but they are still the same woods” (Kaplan, 456). In my opinion, this means that at her stage in life it was unchanging and it was always the same and she liked it that way.
When she first visited the ocean, Andy was unsure of her surroundings. “That was the first time she’d seen the ocean, and it frightened her. It was huge and empty, yet always moving” (Kaplan, 459). Andy wasn’t familiar with her surroundings; she wasn’t raised by the ocean so she didn’t feel the same in the ocean compared to the woods.
At the beginning of the story, Andy was a girl who was comfortable with the unchanging and familiar life she had but by the end she had grown; not quite a woman but not a child. She realized, after the deer was cut right in front of her eyes, that her life can and will change but not always the way she wants. Andy went into the woods a child and came out as an adult.