Happy Life Of Francis Macomber By Ernest Hemingway Careless

Women are Helpless, Greedy, and Careless Back in Hemmingwayś time, women were treated way different than they are today. Hemingway portrays how women were treated in his stories, “Cat in the Rain”, and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. In Hemingway's stories he portrays women as people who have no morals or values. In the stories he makes women seem helpless, greedy, and careless. First Hemingway portrays the female characters in his story as helpless. In the story “Cat in the Rain” the husband says mean things to his wife and treats her with very little respect. When the American Wife was telling her husband what she wants he replies with, “Oh, shut up and get something to read” (131). This shows that the American Wife is letting the husband treat her the way he does, which supports the portrayal of her being helpless. Hemingway uses the way male characters treat the female characters to show how the women are helpless throughout his stories. In the story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”,
In Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”, the American Wife only talks about what she wants. The American Wife says,” And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be Spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes” (131). The American Wife only cares about what she wants. She does not care about what anyone else wants. In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, Macomber’s wife does not care about him. In the text she kisses Wilson right in front of Macomber, “While they sat there his wife had reached forward and put her hand on Wilson’s shoulder. He turned and she had leaned forward over the low seat and kissed him on the lips” (17). Francis Macomber’s wife is careless because she is constantly cheating and only thinking about herself. The women in Hemingway’s stories are portrayed are