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Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber Analysis

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Sometimes the best things in our lives end up hurting us the most. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” tells the story of Francis Macomber who seems to have all a person could want in life. While on a hunting trip with expert hunter Robert Wilson, his wife Margaret Macomber, and other hunters, in Africa. Francis does not start out as the best hunter, but things start to turn in his favor. Suddenly, things take an unexpected turn for the worst when Macomber ends up being shot by his wife. Although Macomber was young and well-built, he was very much a coward, he overcomes that through his bravery, which does not turn out good for him. Macomber was young and well-built, who from the sound of it has all a man …show more content…

Francis and his wife are having a conversation and Margaret starts to defend Wilson as though he has done no wrong, when suddenly Francis shouted “[o]h shut up” (13), this is where Hemingway shows that Francis has truly had enough. They continue out for their hunt of the day, buffalo, they spot them and immediately start shooting them, this hunt Francis is much more into and is much less nervous about. Macomber and Wilson get down all three of the buffalo and are celebrating their kills when one started to get back up, then “Macomber aimed carefully at the center of the huge, jerking, rage drive neck and shot” (15). Unlike the other times when he was nervous and shaking, he was confident in his his shot. They then find out the first buffalo they shot had ran into the woods, Macomber was not worried this time, “‘Can we go in after him now?’ asked Macomber eagerly” (17). Margaret is starting to notice Macomber’s change when he made a comment to her that she did not like much, she said to him “[y]ou’ve gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly” (18), she seems worried about the change Macomber is going through. Francis and Wilson go towards the woods to find the buffalo, after waiting some time, then the buffalo comes charging out of the woods towards them and they both start shooting at him. Right about the time the buffalo dropped from the shot Wilson got in, Macomber dropped from the shot his wife fired, as she went to help shoot the buffalo and

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