For me this story was hard to understand at first. I do not know if the author intended it to be that way or not. I was lost trying to figure out what the story was about until I realized they were hunting animals. I thought the story was going to be about the types of animals they were hunting and a woman being on an animal hunt. After I finished reading it, I realized the story is about their marriage. This is not the first time Margaret t has cheated on her husband. She knows he will never leave her and that is why she does it. She tries to push her husband to become a man that is not a pushover. Francis Macomber was a man that was easy going. He let his money tell him what he should do, or at least as far as his marriage was concerned. He would not leave his wife because he was not strong enough to marry a woman as pretty as Margaret and she would not leave him because she had lost some of her looks and was afraid she would not find a man as rich as he was. Their marriage had been in trouble many times before but they managed to work it out. I wonder if that was the times when she had slept with other men. Macomber was hurt when he found out Margaret had slept with Wilson. She had promised it would not happen again. When Macomber killed the buffalo it changed something inside him, made him a man on the inside. Margaret knew it had changed him, she knew it gave him the strength he needed to leave her. Wilson seems to be convinced that she aimed to kill him. I am still not sure if she shot to kill him or to save him.
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