Doe Season Essay

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Do you enjoy hunting? Doe Season is a short story about a young girl named Andrea. However she faces many problems with herself, in a constant internal conflict with herself over being more of a boy or a girl. The setting changes so slightly that it is not actually that visible until you were to read something to help understand what the concept of the story is. The story Doe Season relies heavily on the setting between the woods and the ocean, where Andrea is caught in the center. The first setting that you were exposed was the forest. The forest is a man’s domain where Andrea is caught in the center of the whole ordeal. In the begging Andrea prefers to be called Andy a boy’s name showing that she is more of a boy than a girl. In the beginning Andrea feels she feels at home in the forest. Eventually she starts to feel alienated for she is the only girl in a group of men doing manly things. Near the end the forest starts to rebel scratching her face with branches and the forest starts to small salty of the sea. The sea which represented womanhood was referenced in the story but she was never actually there. Andrea does not feel at home at the sea. Andrea does not like the sea for unlike the forest the sea is unpredictable and empty. Evidence to show that was her father only went knee deep in the water while her mother went in completely. Anouther aspect that made her dislike womanhood more was that the sea was unpredictable for everything was hidden under the water, and everything was constantly moving. Andrea was also under a lot of influence from other characters. One example was her father who she tries to fallow. Her mother was in the in the ocean and her top fell off exposing herself, however she was not embarrassed about it showing her comfort in the ocean. A man who was in the hunting party with Andrea and her father was a man named Mac
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