"Doe Season"

"Doe Season" is a short story that includes several conflicts. I believe the main conflict of the story is Andy fighting with her own thoughts and emotions as she became more and more aware of what she was doing. At the beginning of the story, Andy is all for hunting with her father and getting the chance to spend the time with him. Throughout the weekend, Andy also has a conflict with Charlie and his son, Mac. Charlie doesn't believe that Andy should be with them because she is a girl. Also at the beginning, Charlie argues with Andy's father about her coming along and says that she should have stayed home. This statement of Charlie's could be interpreted as foreshadowing of how Andy will make the decision at the end of the story to never go hunting again because she doesn't like the idea of killing more deer. The imagery on page 466 of Andy's dream/nightmare with the deer coming up to her with the open wound is quite the vivid description by the author, David Michael Kaplan. I think this could have been the most important scene in the story because it details the pain that Andy is going through because of shooting the deer and why she decides not to act like a boy anymore and embrace being a girl, quite possibly for the first time in her short life.