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Article: "She loves me, she loves me not:" The short happy symbiotic marriage of Margot and Francis Macomber
- Article from:
- Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright American Culture Association Fall 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"What does a woman want?" is a question Freud asked, but never was able to answer and literary critics have often focused their critiques of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" on the very same question with similar results. Their main strategy has most often been to unravel the Macomber conundrum by applying an either/or solution. Margot either fired her rifle to saver her husband's life from the charging buffalo or she took advantage of the opportunity to become a "respectable" widow and murdered him. And, quite predictably, much criticism has often laid the blame for the bloody ending of the story squarely on the shoulders of Margot Macomber.' Thus, H. H. Bell, Jr., for example, ...
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