What did Margaret do ? blog 5

What Margaret does at the end of the short story , The short happy life of Francis Macomber, she ends up shooting and killing her husband Francis. Clearly she had done this on purpose not on accident trying to shoot a buffalo as said on page twenty eight. Early in the short story it speaks of how Margaret is all about her ranking in power and is known to be an addict towards successful man that help her " Yelp rating" meaning reputation. Margaret sees her husband as a coward throughout the beginning and middle of the selection knowing of his fear to kill a lion. An example of her focus on her yelp rating was giving Wilson a kiss and later after ending up having a one night stand with him do to his bold and brave reputation  as a hunter. Not caring of how Francis felt because she knew that he was just to cowardly to leave her. She ends up shooting becoming frightened of the thought of being left alone. Once she sees Francis leave his cowardly stage when hunting down the bulls and shooting them down with Wilson. She realizes that her husband is no longer a coward and is a Men and that Francis will be able to leave her if he wants to so automatically thinking of that basically puts her in shock not thinking clearly basically making sure that she doesn’t get left by killing him.