Doe Season

Question 3
I think she thinks of the woods as staying the same because the woods do not really change aside from the leaves changing color and falling on the ground. She thinks of the ocean as huge and empty and yet always moving”(Kaplan 459) because the water is always moving and does not stay the same like the woods seem to do.
I think Andy feels as if the woods is her childhood where it has always been the same, where she knew what to expect but she feels the ocean is the “unknown”. The ocean symbolizes entering womanhood or adulthood where she is not going to know what to expect all the time as she will be going through a lot of changes.
After she shoots the deer she “was sure she wouldn’t get to sleep; the image of the doe falling, falling then rising again, repeated itself whenever she closed her eyes” (Kaplan 465) is also a sign she is growing up. She is beginning to feel guilty for hurting the doe.