Doe Season

Doe Season to me was the story of a girl battling her sex vs. what she enjoys doing. Their is also the influence from her parents, mainly her father on being a hunter. She gets pressure from all around. I can see this as a problem for alot of daughters who's father is a sportsman and does not have a son to bring with on all these sporting activities. In the beginning she seemed as though she was excited for the trip because she likes the outdoors and relates with the animals. Her father also puts the pressure on her from beginning to end by bragging her up to his friends. "Oh the animals come right out of hiding when she comes around," or "She is such a great shot." This puts the pressure on her to feel like jeez the animals better come out now that he said that, and if they do I have to shot them right away. One and done. As the story moves on I feel that she gets turned off of the sport because of the pressure from her father and his friends. They tease her and joke about her name and basically call her a tom boy, which in my eyes. If I were a little girl and got teased about a boyish name and being a tom boy, I would not ever want to go out hunting again. Exspecially with that group of guys. I think she shoots the deer because she has to. Her dad already talked her up and she feels if she doesn't perform like he says she can then the harassment will just get worse. So she shoots it and I sense a sign of relief right away because it went down and it was over. Although they did the approach all wrong. They should have waited a while longer until the deer died. Then they could have just walked up to it and got it over with. Instead they run right up to it and it runs away. Now Andy gets made fun of even more because she shot it in the wrong spot they say, and its gonna run 10 miles and they will never find it. Bla Bla Bla. They were just being bad sportsmen and it was pushing her out of hunting with her father. Which from the way I see it, is probably one of the only thing outdoorsy that she can do with him. Girls don't do alot of outdoor activities such as hunting with there fathers, and to go and push a girl out of it like that when she seemed to kind of enjoy it at one time is just the wrong thing to do. I suggest not taking her hunting with her fathers friends again.