In the short Ungulated there is a woman who is hell bent to keep this deer from eating her vegetables. She sets up fences and barbed wire, It's almost like she creates a small scale Fort Knox. On the surface this story didn't interest me at all, it sounds almost like a simplistic version of a farmers life. In reality it could be that, but after further analysis and group discussions another idea came to me.
The story as a whole paints vivid images of vegetables in great description and has an almost artistic feel to it. This idea led me to the concept that maybe the story isn't about a physical place or time, but a painting that is being described, as someone looks at it. The issue with this however is that there are still references to real life events making that idea a stretch. It was then brought to my attention that this is a real life experience and that experience is being portrayed as artwork being destroyed by a deer. The vegetables being the artwork that is.
This idea opened up many doors of interpretation, the deer could be represented as a continues struggle, not just in eating the plants but as an emotion as well. If the story is viewed in this light then it tells an uplifting plot. Even though the deer is destroying the farmers plants, the farmer doesn't give up. She continues to fight, trying to overcome the deer. Displaying a message of never giving up, even if your most precious art work is being destroyed.
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