Love And Belonging Needs: Plot Summary

Margot is calm, serious girl who enjoys studying. She is the oldest daughter in the family. Anne and Margot have a few family. Anne and Margot have a few arguments during their time in the Annex but sometimes they get alone well. and talk about a lot of things. Still March 12,1944 Anne writes in her diary. Margot spends most of her time thinking about her looney sister Anne. Margot doesn’t play at

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” examine the complex relationship between a husband and wife. The two works take two different approaches to convey the same message: Marriage is not a fairytale, it requires sacrifice and unselfish behavior in order to work. Relationships are difficult to begin and harder to maintain. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and Aylmer and Georgiana are two relationships that shatter the surreal perception of marriage and expose readers to the raw truth, marriage is not a fairytale.

The irony of Wilson’s concern is neither revealed nor obvious until after the “accidental” death of Francis. Only after he cheats with Margaret does Wilson express his opinion that women are an inconvenience and his concern for his well-being. In doing this, he displays his lack of empathy toward Francis, and he also attempts to distort the cause for Francis’ possible actions as being caused by women on safari rather than his own selfish actions. In essence, the fact that Francis is killed once he has overcome his apprehension towards death while Wilson is just beginning to worry about his safety is extremely ironic and cruel.

Now Hemingway did not necessarily keep Margot's feelings for Robert a secret she was more open about it, but he did hide the interest Wilson had for her like his comment when Margot was bitter about Wilson giving her small amount of attention. “Women upset, said Wilson to the tall man. Amounts to nothing. Strain on the nerves and one thing‟n another.” (page.2 paragraph.17) Saying her feelings are unimportant and nothing to really worry about. The purpose of this could have been to contrast the personalities between

Margot Macomber, Francis’ wife, epitomizes what Hemingway thought of women. She only focuses on her appearance, both her physical appearance and her status. Hemingway went out of his way to mention her modeling career showing her vanity and desire for others to see her beauty. Hemingway focuses more on her attempt to maintain her high status image through her husband. When Francis had shown cowardice and a lack of strength, she would then be ashamed of him and gravitate towards men that she found more respectable. In the story she had an affair with Wilson, he was everything that she could wish for in a man, strong, courageous, and not an embarrassing coward like her husband. Margot felt disappointment with the weakness that Francis displayed during the incident with the lion. She became upset when Wilson was talking about the incident and said, “Let’s not talk about the lion,” she felt shame because of her husband’s actions and she worried about how it would reflect on herself. Hemingway deliberately had her act this way because he felt that all women only care about status and appearances.

Marlow almost immediately dismisses women by characterizing an interaction with his aunt by saying that women as a whole are “out of touch with truth” and that “they live in a world of their own” (Conrad 13). Even though Marlow’s aunt got him a job at the company and is the only reason he journeyed to Congo in the first place, he looks down upon her, perhaps out of his own insecurity. Even though he questions the sense of women, his story is anything but reliable, being described as a

Modern attachment theory, which has now shifted to a regulation theory, takes Bowlby’s original work on attachment and looks at how early experiences, such as prenatal stress, optimal/suboptimal stress, and the mother’s ability to regulate the child’s needs, help the child form an internalized working model for attachment style due to the brain being an “experience-dependent organ” (Cozolino, 2010c; J. Schore & A. Schore, 2012).

During Francis’ first interaction with a lion on the African safari, he bolts away at the first sign of fear. This reaction, earned him the contempt of his wife, who made it quite obvious that she disapproved of his actions. The next day, Macomber’s wife witnesses him confront a charging water buffalo. Much to his wife’s dismay, Francis courageously faces the animal, proving that he could overcome his cowardness. Margot realizes that if Francis continues to prove himself willful and courageous, he might leave her and rid himself forever of her ridicule. This realization leads her to aim a gun at the water buffalo, instead shooting Francis in the back of the head. By taking his life, Margot ended Francis’ misery and her own. The beauty of Francis’ character is that even though he spent his entire marriage disappointing his wife, he was only killed

Francis wants to try again to hunt but he needs practice, he feels sorry for self, wife is mad, and francis is emotional because he can’t keep it a secret. He needs to show it to his wife that he isn’t scared. The worse he gets the more mad his wife will get. The mood wasn’t there because Wilson was teaching him, Francis is practicing how to shoot a lion and how to be a real man, and how margaret is mad at him because he isn't showing her how to be a man.He is also successful and suppresses his emotions and overcoming fears throughout when he was chased by the lion. The only reason why Margaret is with Francis is because Francis has all the money and he is using him for it but he doesn't know it yet. Francis Loves her but he doesn't know if she loves him. “Margaret was too beautiful for macomber to divorce her and macomber had too much money for margaret to leave him”, Francis doesn't know that she is using him. Wilson was confident enough to teach Francis and so he could show his wife that he isn’t a sassy and now is manly enough, he got satisfaction from work. Real Men persevere until the job is completed, control their emotions under difficult circumstances, and when francis was taking care of

Margot is someone you wouldn’t like no matter how many times you had to associate with her. She is as a predator, vicious, even villainous, and a murderer, and we can see why. One of the first things we learn about her in Earnest Hemingway’s short story “A Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” is that “she was an extremely handsome and well-kept woman of the beauty and social position which had, five years before, commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing, with photographs, a beauty product which she had never used” (Hemingway, Page 1). When her husband isn't able to finish off the lion, which instead he decides to run away from the lion in a public display of cowardice. She then cheats on him with their guide, Robert Wilson

Macomber describes Francis as a coward, she says this in here thoughts, “ ...and had just shown himself, very publicly, to be a coward.” Hemingway uses Margaret's internal dialogue to show her feelings about Francis’s cowardness. Margaret compares Francis to Mr.Wilson before she states that Francis is a coward, she say, “He was dressed in the same sort of safari clothes that Wilson wore except that his were new, he was thirty-five years old, kept himself very fit, was good at court games, had a number of big-game fishing records,”(Pg.2). Hemingway uses Margaret's perspective to let readers see the difference in man like experiences between Wilson and Francis.Also, Francis proves that he lacks experience because he is a coward.Francis didn’t want to finish off the lion, so Francis says, “Can’t we send beaters?(Pg.11) Francis dialogue with Mr.WIlson shows that he lacks experience with big game hunting because all he really know what to do is fish, which is told by Mrs.Macomber in page two. Francis keeps coming up with different ideas so that he doesn't have to go out and kill this lion. Hemingway use in first person perspective helps characterizes Francis in this lion scene because it gives a multi-global claim of Francis being a coward. Although, Francis is a coward at the beginning, he later changes his confidence that transforms his character.Mr.Wilson and Margaret both notice Francis’s character shift, but only Wilson is happy about it. Mr. Wilson called Francis a “fire eater” to show Francis’s excitement build, and Margaret is afraid of Francis’s confidence. Margaret tries to tear down Francis because she knows he will leave her. Hemingway use both Wilson and Margaret to show two different feelings for Francis. Francis cowardness was finally depleted because he went beyond his fear, and Hemingway uses this change in character to change other character's

Blythe and Sweet concur in their review “In fact, evidence suggests that Wilson deliberately engineers the death of Francis Macomber in order to gain leverage on Margot Macomber and protect the only thing in life Wilson truly values, his job” (305). He could have achieved this in a number of ways. On many occasions he attempts to boost the confidence of Macomber by complementing his shooting techniques. Almost as though he was trying to bring about the changes in Macomber that his wife Margot is so deathly afraid of near the end of the story. Changes that he knows that Margot just would not be able to deal with.

Francis reveals his lack of self-confidence and control over the situation. ?If he had been better with women she would probably have started to worry about him getting another new, beautiful wife but she knew too much about him to worry? (Hemingway). His lack of self-confidence has given her all the power in the relationship and it was a major contributing factor in her infidelity. Later on in the story, the growth of Francis?s confidence during the buffalo hunt and Margot?s displeasure with it is the final clue in determination of the death of Francis Macomber. The buffalo hunt gives Francis a new found sense of ?happiness?. This ?new wealth? of confidence is powerful for Francis and devastating for Margot . ?Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear? (Hemingway). Margot knew at this point that if Francis survives the trip, he might possess enough personal strength and finally leave her, and that is what encourages her decision to kill him. At the end of the story Wilson confirms the reader?s suspicion when he reacts to the shooting by saying to Margot, ?That was a pretty thing to do? (Hemindway). That statement reinforces the belief that Margot was indeed taking advantage of the opportunity to ensure her long-term wealth and eliminate the possibility of being

     The name, Margot, will now because of this character, will mean uncaring. Every aspect of her life had been by evil and hate for herself, which she then deposited onto her husband. She is the type of person that in order to make herself feel worthy has to taunt, tease and slander someone; she is “simply enameled in American female cruelty” (Hemmingway 1569). She is desperate to stay young and beautiful; she was desperate to make sure she was not left behind. She had Francis’s ticket in her hot little hand but kept in close to her because without it he would have left her. For “Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him” (Hemmingway 1579). This is a marital “check” to keep each other in a position where they might not be able to leave. This is clear connection to Judy Jones and the way she loves to play with a man’s mind. Margot does it not like Judy

Marlow first crosses paths with Kurtz’s African mistress in the Congo. “And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman.” Marlow’s description of her mirrors his feelings about the Congo, her beauty is appealing to him because it is foreign and unlike the European women he is used to. He further describes her, “She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress.” Though Marlow appreciates her physically, he equates her to being ‘wild’ and ‘savage’ and sees her as backward and uncultured. The word ‘ominous’ gives the sense that Marlow envisions her with darkness. In comparison, when Marlow meets Kurtz’s ‘Intended’ he is affected by her beauty in a different way. “She struck me as beautiful—I mean she had a beautiful expression. I know that the sunlight can be made to lie, too, yet one felt that no manipulation of light and pose could have conveyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed ready to listen without mental reservation, without suspicion, without a thought for herself.” Marlow describes Kurtz’s ‘Intended’ as innocent and pure. Though she lacks the excitement of Kurtz’s African mistress, she is the good homely wife a man would prefer. In comparison to the African mistress, Marlow envisions ‘The Intended’ with ‘sunlight’ and brightness. In this way, Conrad alludes that the only thing of importance to women is their physical beauty to please the eyes of