The Spirit of DeathErnest Hemingway has many themes when it comes to his short stories. These themes can range from sex, alcohol, death, youth and trust. Many of these themes are present in numerous stories he writes. The most interesting theme is how Hemingway depicted someone's death. He didn't want anyone to die simply to write them out of the story, it was the death of their spirit that died along with them. He believed that every man's life ends the same way; the difference lies in the way they lived it. In The Short, Happy like by Francis Macomber, Francis lived only a short happy life, this life was considered joyful for seconds maybe minutes if he was lucky. When Francis died, he died as the master of his own life. Francis Macomber was testing his courage when he went to hunt his game that evening. His wife did not believe he had ever excelled as a man in anything he did. He had money and decent looks and that's how he got by in life. When Francis finished his first game, he discovered his sense of manhood. It took him until he was thirty-five to realize that he could change and become a man. It is at the end of the story that he finally finds the courage to face the water buffalo and kill it. At this crucial moment his wife notices his sense of virility and realizes that he will no longer need her, she feels that she is in danger and shoots the buffalo but instead kills her husband who dies happy and with a sense of contentment. and his spirit is finally lifted. In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Harry is dying at the very beginning of the story. He, like many of Hemingway's characters, did not live his life in a way that made his death easy. He married his wife exclusively on... middle of paper... his baby will be the end of their relationship. The woman, on the other hand, believes that keeping the baby will bring new life into their relationship. The woman experiences a feeling of difficulty when faced with the decision to have to give birth to the child, to "save" the relationship with her lover. The man believes that the only thing that bothered them and made them unhappy was the nagging thought of having a baby. He convinces her that if she has an abortion they will be fine and happy again. He asks "And if I do this will you be happy and things will go back to the way they were and you will love me?" She agrees to have an abortion and her spirit dies a little inside. He says “Then I will. Because I don't care about me." The death of their unborn fetus represents the death of his spirit and happiness for someone other than his own. Books by Heminway