The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
This powerful short story by Ernest Hemingway is about African Safari and what it means to be a man:
“Beggar had probably been afraid all his life. Don’t know what started it. But over now. Hadn’t had time to be afraid with the buff. That and being angry too. Motor car too. Motor cars made it familiar. Be a damn fire eater now. He’d seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.”
The full short story can be read online (or as a PDF), courtesy of duke.edu
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