Get Off My Back Mac

In the story “Doe Season” by David Michael Kaplan the main character Andy has a strong desire to please and show that she belongs in that type of setting. One the first day when Charlie Spoon instructed his son to gather some fire wood Andy jumped in and said “I’ll do it” (460). Even more so, after Andy had spotted deer for the second time and her father said “Andy spotted it, let her shoot it” (463) she said “I can’t” (464). Her father even asked her if she wanted to shoot it and she said that she would even though inside her head she was wishing that the deer would run away. Her desire to please and belong is most evident by her actually pulling the trigger. She could have just missed on purpose and the deer would have run away but then she would have to face Charlie Spoon and Mac. Those two would never have let her live it down. So in her desire to please her father and to show that she belongs out there she did something that she did not want to do.