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The Macombers are quasi-celebrities back in the United States, where their rocky marriage regularly makes headlines. By mimicking a “society columnist,” who compares the Macombers’ exploits abroad to movies about safaris and exploration in Africa (as well as to Martin Johnson, an explorer and filmmaker who worked on safaris), Hemingway draws attention to the very genre in which he is working: the adventure story, which often draws on the tropes of hunting and safaris. Ironically, though, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” unsettles the adventure story genre by ending in Macomber’s death. Such an inglorious conclusion is rarely found…