Doe Season

I think the main theme of this story is the coming of self. I think Andy was trying to be impressive for her father by doing the things she did with him such as hunting fishing and other actvities that are considered male ones. Andy feels a connection with her father by doing these things with him. She has not discovered yet that this is not what she wishes to become. Andy soon finds out after killing a doe and having a dreadful dream about reaching her arm into the wound and feeling the heart beat which i think symoblizes that the doe is just as alive as she is. Also Andy says she feels great pain from the heat of the insides and i think that symbolizes that because the doe feels pain she is feeling pain as well. She soon discovers that she does not wish to be Andy anymore and wants to be Andrea after seeing the procedure used in gutting a deer. I think this means that she has discovered herself and came to a realization of what she wants to be.
I have experienced a moment such as Andy's. I used to be such a girly girl because in all honesty i didn't know who i was and i thought boys liked girly girls. Soon I came to a realization that it doesn't matter what other people want from you its what you want in yourself that matters. That's when i discovered i liked doing things like hunting fishing working on cars and just being myself!!!