Doe Season Review

Kaplan’s ”Doe Season” is about self-discovery and acceptance.

Doe Season’s protagonist is a nine-year old girl named Andrea. ‘Doe Season’ is a story of Andrea who does want to be a woman. She believes the man’s world is more wonderful. She dreads the changes she needs to go through to become a woman. Her father supports her desire by calling her Andy and encourages her to do manly things. Andy desires to be a part of man’s world but somehow in the end, she realizes she cannot escape reality that she is a female and she should not try to be someone she is not.

In “Doe Season”, Andrea wants to become accepted in the all-male group she hangs out with. Yet, she feels alienated and lonely because she seems to be the odd one out in the group. This alienation is noticeable at the start of the story when she expresses her dislike for Mac. Mac teases and pulls pranks on her. She believes Mac is stupid. This shows Andrea’s feminine side which she tries hard to conceal.

Another instance in “Doe Season” when Andrea feels alienated was the men are talking about deer. She comments that she sees a deer behind their house. Charlie Spoon reasons it is because deer instinctively know when the hunting season is. Then they all laugh about which makes Andrea confused. The whole conversation about deer makes her feel out of place.

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The primary concept of the story revolves around Andrea’s relationship with his father. Andy wants to please her father. Her father takes her to a hunting trip to test if she can be a part of the man’s world. Her father asks her to shoot a deer and then made her watch as he and Charlie Spoon gut the deer. At the cost of displeasing her father, Andy could not deny the fact that she has to remain true to her identity. She chooses to be true to herself in the end as symbolized by running away from the assembly of men gutting the deer.

In “Doe Season”, there are a...