In Hemmingway’s story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, the marriage of Margot and Francis Macomber was not the ideal marriage. To the reader it seems as though Margot could not care less about Macomber. The question at the end of the story is whether or not Margot purposefully killed Macomber. I believe that, yes, disguising it as an accident, Margot did kill her husband intentionally. Here is what causes me to think that Margot killed her husband. Throughout the story, the author made it obvious that Margot did not particularly care for her husband. After the incident where Macomber flees from the wounded lion that he was hunting, Margot was ashamed. She was completely embarrassed about the fact that her husband ran instead of staying to kill the lion. Then, Margot was always putting Macomber down and making him feels like he was not enough of a man. She constantly reminds him how much of a coward he was and degrading his manhood. Margot would make him feel as though he was less than a man during their marriage. If a person truly cares about another, like a wife and husband should, he/she would not put the other down the way Margot does to Macomber. When married, the couple is supposed to support on another, pick them up when one is discouraged, and love them unconditionally. Margot, however, does none of what a wife should. Since she was embarrassed and did not treat Macomber well it was understandable how the shooting was intentional. However, others might say that is was, in fact, and accident, regardless of how she felt about Macomber. Some people could say that this incident was an accident because once Margot saw how brave Macomber was with the buffalo; she began to lover him once again. People might say that he become more attractive to Margot when he stays and kills the buffalos when Margot saw how he was longer a coward, she begins to love him as she once did. After this encounter with the buffalo, and Mar