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Ernest Hemingway “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” “A Very Short Story” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” Francis Macomber, already holding numerous fishing records wanted to go on a hunting safari in Africa. He and his wife travelled to Africa, and stayed with a professional guide, Robert Wilson. When hunting a lion, Macomber shot too far back, shooting it in the guts, wounding it. The guide, Wilson and he went in to kill the lion, when it charged and Macomber ran like a girl. His wife was very displeased with her cowardly husband, so she slept with Wilson, the guide, who was quite the womanizer himself. Macomber learned of this, so when they went hunting for cape buffalo, he took his aggression out and killed three large bulls. One got up and charged Macomber, who didn’t run this time, instead he stood his ground and shot at the bull, but it didn’t stop. Seeing his courage, Margaret shot at the bull, but by mistake shot her husband in the head. Tone Hemingway illustrates a very pessimistic tone in his story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” It is pessimistic because Hemingway uses death as a theme through metaphors and symbols. Death is something that is inevitable, and for some, shortcoming. Death is not the biggest fear we have, our biggest fear is taking the risk of being alive. Thus, by discussing every element of death, the tone can be best described as pessimistic. How could one even argue the fact that it’s not pessimistic when the story is seemingly getting to a happy point, when the story takes a completely different route, “Mrs. Macomber had shot at the buffalo… …and hit her husband about two inches up and a little to one side of the base of his skull.” Imagery Hemingway is well known for including excellent details about everything he can, which I particularly noticed at points where death was introduced. With the lion: “… turning saw the lion, with half his head seeming to be gone… ….and the crawling, heavy