Essay Archive - The Intentional Death of Francis Macomber
The Intentional Death of Francis Macomber
Ernest Hemingway has created a masterpiece of mystery in his story "The
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". The mystery does not reveal itself
to the reader until the end of the story, yet it leaves a lot to the
imagination. At the end of the story
Margaret Macomber kills her husband by accident, in order to save him from
being mauled by a large Buffalo while on a safari in Africa. The mystery is
whether or not this killing was truly accidental, or intentional. If it was
to be considered intentional, there would certainly have to be evidence i....
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