Doe Season # 3

Andy finds comfort in the woods being always the same because it fulfills a child's need for stability. If the woods that she kills the doe in are the same woods as behind her house it decreases the feeling of being in an unfamiliar place, which is always comforting. To Andy, the ocean is unfamiliar "...huge and empty, yet always moving. Everything lay hidden" (Kaplan 514). Any transition from childhood to adulthood requires a shift from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Becoming and adult is often also a process of discovering things that were previously hidden. When Andy left for the hunting trip she seems excited to be hunting, until she discovers her feelings toward killing the doe.