I've always liked reading stories my Hemingway. He expressed a great love of travel and conquering nature. Their was also a great depth of the emotions (however negative they were) found in human-nature in his writings.
In the story The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Hemingway tells the tale of a man, his unfaithful wife (Margot), and a sleazy expidition leader (Wilson). The expidition leader is disgusted by Francis Macomber as well as society in general. He sees Francis as a coward with nothing to offer the world. Margot also sees the cowardice in Francis, and this causes her to have absolutely no respect for him.
Margot and Wilson end up sleeping together, and Margot rubs it in Francis' face but he is too spineless to do anything about it. She has cheated on him in the past and knows Francis will not bully her because of her indescretion.
In the end Margot ends up shooting Francis while he being borne down upon by the buffalo he is trying to shoot. Whether or not this is an accident is left up to suspicion as the story comes to a close.
While the story mainly focuses on the negative aspects of all three characters I still enjoyed reading it because of the graphic detail Hemingway put into it about all three of their natures. I left the story feeling as though I had a good, thorough understanding of the people in it.
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