In Hemingway’s story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, Margot Macomber is viciously manipulative. When Robert Wilson, a professional hunter and guide, is observing Margot while they are eating lunch, he concludes, “She’s damn cruel but they’re all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes.”(Hemingway 10). This indirect characterization explains that Margot has power over Francis however, she uses it to mercilessly control him. Another example of this is when Margot threatens her husband after she slept with Wilson, “ ‘If you make a scene, I’ll leave you, darling,’”(20). The aforementioned indirect characterization describes how she is purposely threatening him, so that he will become frightened and
