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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
The stories of Ernest
Hemingway, particularly The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber and The
Snows Of Kilimanjaro, are centered on women, drink, money and ambition.
This 5 page paper asserts that Hemingway portrays the wife either as a
'bitch' in character and, or, considered to be a bitch by the husband.
The woman is also seen as competent and challenging of the male's
virility-based ego. Lastly, the women in these stories are seen either
by the reader or by the fictional husband as controlling and
manipulative. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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women, specifically. Carlos Baker believes that the stories of Ernest Hemingway, particularly The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber and The Snows Of Kilimanjaro, are centered on women, drink,
money and ambition. Unfortunately these were the very things that Hemingway believed were at the heart of a writers downfall. In both of these stories, Hemingway portrays the
wife either as a bitch in character and, or, considered to be a bitch by the husband. The woman is also seen as competent and challenging of the males
virility-based ego. Lastly, the women in these stories are seen either by the reader or by the fictional husband as controlling and manipulative. Hemingway seems to portray the
good woman in Helen and the bad woman in Margot - even though he also portrays the women as ultimately caring for their husbands. In The Snows Of Kilimanjaro, Harry
and his wife, Helen are on safari at the bottom of the volcano in Africa. Harry has scratched his leg and not taken care of it and gangrene has
set in. He seems to hate his wife, states openly that he never loved her (he retracts this, but the way he interacts belied the retraction). He married her
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid for the money
with his writing career. Harry is dying and he is fully aware of the fact. During the wait for a plane to take them to civilization he
mulls over his past experiences - experiences he meant to write about rather than marrying Helen and her money. The women portrayed in these two works are not characterized
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