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This 5 page report discusses and compares two short stories -- “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” (1936) bye Ernest Hemingway and “The White Stocking” by D.H. Lawrence.
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is modeled after F. Scott Fitzgerald who Hemingway loathed and the characters wife, Margot, is based on Jane Kendall Mason, a woman Hemingway had been involved with romantically and then
dumped. In comparison, the story "The White Stocking" (1914) by the sometimes scandalous D.H. Lawrence received little recognition outside of literary circles. (Of course it was another ten years before
his writing began to raise society eyebrows. Then his attitudes regarding sexual freedom arose obscenity trials which, decades later, are still part of the relationship between literature and society.) But
certainly, "The White Stocking" was not a story that held any interest for the gossip columns! Both stories present the reader with a glimpse into a hidden world of
hatred and violence masquerading as love and compatibility. When one considers the fact that both were written in a time when things such as wives being beaten and loveless
marriages were not common dinner-table conversation, they are even more startling in terms of their overall impact. Add to that fact the mastery of words demonstrated by both Lawrence and
Hemingway and the impact of the stories is especially powerful. "Francis Mcomber" It is possible, even reasonable, to consider the story of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the sexes." It is more than likely that when anybody begins to read a Hemingway
short story about a couple that they already know that the couple is not likely to come to a good end. However, this story has a literally fatal outcome when
Margot "accidentally" shoots him while they are on safari in Africa. What is one of the most interesting parts of the story is that it is Margot who is the
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