In the short story "The short happy life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway the author seems to describe his problems with his wife and woman in general. By putting his main character, Francis Macomber, in a far away environment he tries to push his problems far away from him. In the story the main charter's wife, Margot Macomber, is described as a "bitchy woman" and that's exactly what Hemingway thinks about woman. He things that all women are prostitutes and unfaithful to there husbands.
In the beginning of the story, we learn that Francis has tried to shoot a lion but failed, running from the wounded animal in fear. Although Wilson assures Francis that this was a perfectly normal reaction for a beginning hunter, it is clear that neither he nor Margot think so. When Margot tells Francis that after this experience she "needs" a gimlet (an alcoholic drink), she implies that what she really needs is a manly husband. The story's conflict is not only between Margot and Francis, or between Francis and Wilson; it is between Francis Macomber and himself. .
One of the biggest problems in the marriage of the Macombers is that Margot doesn't really love her husband and has been betraying him on several occasions. But the real reason why Margot married Francis is his money. But for Francis: Margot is just a trophy wife. It's hard to tell if he really loves her because he doesn't leave her even if she cheats on him but he needs her to show of against his friends at home. You could describe the marriage as the Macomber union. "She is too beautiful for Macomber to divorce, and he has too much money for her to leave him.".
Unfortunately for Francis, just as he gets ready to kill a buffalo and shows that he is not a coward, Margot raises her own gun and kills her husband. Hemingway doesn't tell us why she does this, allowing the reader to come to our own conclusions. It's possible that Margot kills Francis because she feared that with his new-found confidence he would leave her; alternatively, it's possible that Margot was actually aiming at the buffalo, because she wanted to rob Francis of the glory of the kill he so desperately needed to accomplish alone.
