The Hemingway Review, March 22nd, 1996
The debate as to whether Margot intended to kill her husband Francis during the buffalo hunt in Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" raises the subject of male-female cognitive adaptions. Margot is afraid that her husband Francis will leave her for another woman and that she will not be able to find a similar husband because of her low reproductive value. If Francis survives the buffalo attack, he will probably divorce her, but if he does not she can retain his resources. JAMES WATSON writes about Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" that the assessm...
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