The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is a story written by Ernest Hemingway. This story was a good one. I think the title is symbolic because he was happy but when he finds out everything about his life and eventually dies you see that his life wasnt all that great. In the story Francis and his wife go to a safari trip with a man named Wilson. Francis is a rich white man who isnt a manly man. In the story Francis runs away from a lion when Wilson the manly man shoots it and doesnt seemed fazed by the lion. Also, Francis wife cheats on him with Wilson and Francis knows it and says "I thought you werent gonan do this here" which implies that she cheats on him alot. This shows that she is only married to him becuase he is rich and him because she is pretty, something that happens alot these days unfortunately. In the end she shoots Francis by mistake when he tries to stand up to a lion and then it ends.