Analysis, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
Hemingway, Ernest was a famous novelist, writer, and journalist and he was considered one of most famous novelists in the twentieth century. Moreover, he also got a lot of rewards, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. The primary focus of Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” was a story talking about a wealthy couple hired a hunter, Robert Wilson to help them to hunt in Africa for the two days a night trip. It is easier to catch the audiences’ interest because he is through the story to tell people the real meaning of the life is not scared of dying and should be brave. Hemingway uses psychological description, repetition, and simple conversation to …show more content…
The most important conversation is between Macomber and his wife, Margaret. When Macomber woke up from the nightmare, he found out his wife was gone for a while. He asked his wife where she was and said that, “You are a bitch.” Then his wife against, “you 're a coward” (Hemingway 10). Moreover, Macomber talked that, “You don 't wait long when you have an advantage, do you” (Hemingway 11)? In this simple conversation, it clearly showed that this couple’s real life and showed their character. Hemingway used a lot of events to talk about Macomber was the crowd. Finally, he changed and killed the buffalo, but he got killed by his wife Margaret. The author did not give the truth that why Margaret killed her husband. Morgan addressed the fact that, “This applies whether one believes that the shooting was an accident, or the Mrs. Macomber’ aim was deflected by a subconscious motive” (Morgan 28). At the end, Wilson talked to Margaret that she did a good job. It gave the audience that Margaret killed his husband. In the other hand, it also could say that Margaret wanted to shoot the buffalo, but she killed her husband by accidence. What was the reason to kill her husband? Macomber could prove better life to Margaret. However, Macomber became brave; it made sense his wife wanted to kill him because she was scared he would out of control by her. In the story, Hemingway created Margaret was a mean and typical hellcat who always wraps Macomber around her fingers. When her husband found out she betrayed him again, she was not scared and argue that he was the crowd in her mind. Finally, she saw Macomber became strong and killed the buffalo; she killed her husband. Kozikowski stated that, “Francis and Margot Macomber, in Hemingway’s bold exegesis, suggest a prelapsarian Adam and Even, created but living uncomfortably in androgyny, becoming individuated sexually after their fall, which brings destruction
Hemingway, Ernest was a famous novelist, writer, and journalist and he was considered one of most famous novelists in the twentieth century. Moreover, he also got a lot of rewards, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. The primary focus of Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” was a story talking about a wealthy couple hired a hunter, Robert Wilson to help them to hunt in Africa for the two days a night trip. It is easier to catch the audiences’ interest because he is through the story to tell people the real meaning of the life is not scared of dying and should be brave. Hemingway uses psychological description, repetition, and simple conversation to …show more content…
The most important conversation is between Macomber and his wife, Margaret. When Macomber woke up from the nightmare, he found out his wife was gone for a while. He asked his wife where she was and said that, “You are a bitch.” Then his wife against, “you 're a coward” (Hemingway 10). Moreover, Macomber talked that, “You don 't wait long when you have an advantage, do you” (Hemingway 11)? In this simple conversation, it clearly showed that this couple’s real life and showed their character. Hemingway used a lot of events to talk about Macomber was the crowd. Finally, he changed and killed the buffalo, but he got killed by his wife Margaret. The author did not give the truth that why Margaret killed her husband. Morgan addressed the fact that, “This applies whether one believes that the shooting was an accident, or the Mrs. Macomber’ aim was deflected by a subconscious motive” (Morgan 28). At the end, Wilson talked to Margaret that she did a good job. It gave the audience that Margaret killed his husband. In the other hand, it also could say that Margaret wanted to shoot the buffalo, but she killed her husband by accidence. What was the reason to kill her husband? Macomber could prove better life to Margaret. However, Macomber became brave; it made sense his wife wanted to kill him because she was scared he would out of control by her. In the story, Hemingway created Margaret was a mean and typical hellcat who always wraps Macomber around her fingers. When her husband found out she betrayed him again, she was not scared and argue that he was the crowd in her mind. Finally, she saw Macomber became strong and killed the buffalo; she killed her husband. Kozikowski stated that, “Francis and Margot Macomber, in Hemingway’s bold exegesis, suggest a prelapsarian Adam and Even, created but living uncomfortably in androgyny, becoming individuated sexually after their fall, which brings destruction