Doe Season

I think Doe Season is a perfect example of a person trying to find thier true identity. I think Andy is pressured by her father to try and be one of the guys, but I think she is tired of doing it. It seems like she trys to tell herself that she was happy to be on the hunting trip and she tries to tell herself that she loves being out with her father. She also says that there is no other place she would rather be. I dont buy it. When she goes to shoot the doe the voice in her head tells her that she doesn't really want to kill it. "But now, seeing it in the scope, Andy was hesitant" (Kaplan 456). I think that passage kinda sums it up, she doesn't really want to shoot the deer, she doesn't want to kill an animal. But her father talks her into doing it anyway. I think if she would of said something to her father he would of understood. When Charlie asked what name does she go by Andy or Andrea she says she doesn't care, you know she has a preference. After that conversation she said she didn't really feel like talking. When Mac and Andy were in the tent getting ready to go to sleep Mac starts to tell her a story of the last time he went hunting with his dad and tells her what they did to the deer after it was killed. "And we hog-dressed the thing. You know what that is , don't you" (Kaplan 461)? Andy had no clue what that was. She is slowly finding out what hunting is really about and is already second guessing her decison to tag along with the guys. I also belive the dream is a dead give away that she was kinda stuck between which role she wanted to be in. When they found the deer dead and they went to field dress it she ran off crying, I think that was her making her decision that she was tired of pretending to like hunting, and she just wants to be a girl