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| T.
Winkleman:
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Was Andy
traumatized after the incident with the deer? |
| C. Young: |
Why did you make Andy suffer
and stress about not completely
killing the doe?
Is
this a struggle between the rite of passage
of
becoming
an adult and realizing death?
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| Kaplan |
Was Andy
traumatized after shooting the deer? Yes,
I think so. After all, she didn't really want to kill it. Before shooting it, she
was identifying with it in a way. She
certainly didn't want it to suffer. That's
her conflict then: between the values of her father's world
(to which she has wanted to belong) and her own almost pre-conscious
valuation of the female world, as embodied by her mother--and the doe. |
| R.
Acevedo: |
Why did you make the
connection
between the ocean "smelling of death"
and the killing
of the deer?
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| Kaplan |
Why
does the ocean smell like death? I think just because it
sometimes seems that way to me--the raw vegetative almost rotting
seaweedy smell which the ocean has sometimes.
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| K. Arnold: |
Why does she talk about
her
mother losing her bathing suit
and what does it have to
do with the story?
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| Kaplan |
She's
both fascinated and embarrassed by her mother's losing
her suit, because the sight of her mother's breasts is a
pre-conscious intimation to her of what she will be--a
woman. Which she is not yet ready
(when she saw her
mother in the ocean) to value or accept.
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| C.
Winings: |
I like the last
paragraph
the best and I would like to ask what happens to
Andy? What were the next few days
like for her after
the
hunting trip?
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| Kaplan |
What
will life be like for Andy after the trip? Can't
say, but
I imagine she will over the coming months pull more and more away from her
father's world and move more and more toward her ultimate biological/psychological destiny as a young woman. That
after all is what the greater hunt of "Doe Season" has been, really.
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