Francis Macomber

Ernest Hemingway uses third person in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and it gives him the ability to inform the reader of every POV. He is an omniscient narrator switching perspectives from Margaret, Francis, and Robert. He describes his characters and gives a short backstory and character description. First, as Margaret Macomber who is married to Francis, Hemingway jumps right into dialogue. He shorty after describes her as a well kept woman, who commanded “ five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing, with photographs, a beauty product which she had never used.” He describes her this way to emphasise her beauty and her marriage
“Mrs. Macomber looked at Wilson quickly. 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. She had been married to Francis Macomber for eleven years.” Hemingway shows the reader how different …show more content…
By using the third person he is able to really draw the reader in by giving various different points of view of the world and events that take place within the novel. For example one character might think or interpret something completely different than another character. This adds depth to the world and story that Hemingway presents to the reader. As stated already, this is a very character based novel. That is why the use of the third person is so important. If it was not told in the third person the novel, at least in my opinion, would feel incomplete and lacking. It would feel as if everything was simply centered around one thing and the reader was not getting the full picture. By the use of the third person Hemingway is able to describe everything to the reader and effectively tell the