Informative Essay on Doe Season

The fiction of “Doe Season” is about the story of Andy who would like to be a boy rather than a girl. In her mind, it was the world for men and her father agree with her by giving her a men’s name. She tried to be a real man and share responsibility as a man. I think the story is focus on the relationship between Andy and her father. At the beginning of the story, Charlie thought she was only a little girl that activities like hunting was not suit for her. But her father insisted Andy won’t bother them and let her go with them.
This part of story is presented by forms of dialogue. It showed Andy’s father completely believe Andy can do a good job as a boy. She was strong enough in his mind. Thus, the relationship between Andy and her father was built. In the 54 paragraph, Andy’s farther said with grinning, “Didn’t I say she could find animals? ” It reveals Andy’s father was super proud of his daughter. These plots were added to promote Andy and her father’s relationship. Then, let us talk of Mac. He thought he could do anything better than her because he is a boy and Andy is a girl.
He made fun of Andy, and Andy disliked him. It seems less important to show the relationship between Andy and Mac. However, I realized what if Andy is a real boy? If the protagonist was a boy at start, what will happen later in this story? So I think Mac was a shadow of her age. The author used this character to contrast. This is the plot to build the relationships between protagonist and other people. An obbligato character is Andy’s mother. “Andy’s mother kissed her and her father and said, ‘Well, have a good time’ and ‘Be careful’ ” (511).

Andy’s mother showed her love as a mother and wife. She was a typically mild woman. And in paragraph 45, the plot change to relate to ocean and Andy’s mother. “It was huge and empty, yet always moving”(514). She dislike the ocean and afraid to be a person like her mother. She loved her mother but she didn’t like to join womanhood. So I think the author put the ocean and Andy’s mother together was quite good. The ocean was empty related to women’s meaningless. It implies she yearn for men’s life.
However, she changed her idea at the end of the story. When “the image of the doe falling, falling, then rising again, repeated itself whenever she closed her eyes” (520), she started realizing she couldn’t be so strong. Later, her father used his knife to cut the doe and asked her to watch it, but she run away. At that time, she deeply thought she couldn’t change anything. She would be a woman like her mother. This part of plot was built to tell us everyone has their own experience of the loss. But it is reasonable and unavoidable.