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 friend Tex Hyde are able to experience a transcendent oneness with nature.
-In a similar situation but without the devastating irony, Hemingway
+In a similar situation but without the devastating irony, Hemingway equips the title character in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” with a - rifle and  grain solid slugs for lion and Cape buffalo. The professional hunter, Robert Wilson, based on the famous Philip Percival with whom Hemingway had hunted in Africa, carries a “shockingly big-bored". Gibbs “with a muzzle velocity of two tons” (). Here, Hemingway makes an error in nomenclature and physics, since muzzle velocity is measured in feet per second, and muzzle energy in foot pounds.Yet the . Gibbs, a highly specialized big game hunting rifle of which only eighty were ever manufactured, presents a very impressive picture in the mind’s eye. Finally, in one of the greatest examples of controlled ambiguity in literature, Macomber’s wife Margot, “shot at the buffalo with the . Mannlicher” (), killing her husband. This . mm Mannlicher (a fine sporting arm quite different from the rough, mass produced Mannlicher Carcano of Farewell and Oswald’s Tale) is the instrument of a death which lives forever in the shadowy ambiguity of Margot Macomber’s true intent, and which brings to a close the short, happy, existential life of the protagonist.
-equips the title character in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
-with a - rifle and  grain solid slugs for lion and Cape buffalo. The
-professional hunter, Robert Wilson, based on the famous Philip Percival with
-whom Hemingway had hunted in Africa, carries a “shockingly big-bored”
-. Gibbs “with a muzzle velocity of two tons” (). Here, Hemingway
-makes an error in nomenclature and physics, since muzzle velocity is measured in feet per second, and muzzle energy in foot pounds.Yet the . Gibbs,
-a highly specialized big game hunting rifle of which only eighty were ever
-manufactured, presents a very impressive picture in the mind’s eye. Finally,
-in one of the greatest examples of controlled ambiguity in literature, Macomber’s wife Margot, “shot at the buffalo with the . Mannlicher” (),
-killing her husband. This . mm Mannlicher (a fine sporting arm quite different from the rough, mass-produced Mannlicher Carcano of Farewell and
-Oswald’s Tale) is the instrument of a death which lives forever in the shadowy ambiguity of Margot Macomber’s true intent, and which brings to a
-close the short, happy, existential life of the protagonist.
 Part One of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not () opens with an action sequence in which two politically opposed groups of Cubans kill each