Doe Season

I thought this story was very long and drawn out. The author used extremely detailed language, describing many things that didn't seem to be an important aspect of the story. "The road crossed a stream, which had mostly frozen over but in a few spots still caught leaves and twigs in an icy swirl" (Kaplan 462). I think sentences like this unimportant on should have been left out of the story to prevent it from dragging on. In other parts of the story I did like how the use of detail for a purpose; to give a better picture of what was going on. "Her father's knife sliced thickly from chest to belly to crotch" (Kaplan 467). I also thought that the author did a good job of foreshadowing how Andy would change later on in the story. This was done with Charlie and Mac making comments about her not being ladylike or how she should have just been born a boy.