In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, Hemingway tries to show the relationship between men and women by showing the interactions that two people share in a failed marriage. The two characters, Francis and Margaret Macomber, have their differences and only remain together for social reasons. The two of them are separated however when Margaret shoots Francis in the back of the head. The first signs of their anger towards each other is when …showed first 75 words of 377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 377 total…of harboring thoughts of getting even with her husband by killing him. At the end of the story, she shoots her husband, and even Wilson knows that she did it, he says “that was a pretty thing to do” all she could say is “stop it” and then he says “he would have left you, you know” and she couldn’t answer. She knew that she would get away with the murder of her husband.