I can read several meanings from this story. First of all, the lion hunting by wealthy businessmen represents people's fear and escape in the face of fear, especially the suffocating fear, which is emphatically described in Hemingway's story. At the same time, the injured lion was also afraid of human beings, but the wildness prompted it to fight to the death with human beings and was finally killed and skinned. Here, we can also feel the sympathy of human beings as masters for the relatively weak life of lions.
As for the rich businessman's wife, this is a beautiful woman. Obviously, she values the money of wealthy businessmen, who are also greedy for her beauty. So neither of them will leave each other, and they are evenly matched. She witnessed the cowardly escape scene of a wealthy businessman hunting lions. He didn't care and understand, but he was cynical and ended up fooling around with the captain of the lion hunting team all night. The rich businessman also knows what his wife is like. Both of them know that they sneer at each other, but they are also a perfect match. Through this description, we can see Hemingway's ambition. Maybe he just wants to express the absurdity of life through this noisy description between husband and wife. In particular, the following description of the sexual suggestion of hunting bison is more like a catharsis, a catharsis of this fucking life.
Then, the rich businessman actually vented his cowardice on the bison, which seemed to be less powerful than the lion. A fire, like a fierce hunter. Just as most of us are afraid of power, we also like to bully the weak. At the same time, when the first life really died at his hands, the rich businessman began to feel the taste of mastering the fate of life and death. This is an opportunity to transform the rich businessman. The rich businessman's wife saw that the rich businessman had changed. It is expected that Libra, which originally had a balanced marriage, has tilted towards wealthy businessmen. So I simply didn't stop and pretended not to be careful and killed the rich businessman. The story ends here. In a word, reading this story makes me feel awkward. At the same time, this story tells us that in marriage, two people must be evenly matched. When one party breaks the lever to maintain the balance between the two parties, the relationship will soon come to an end.
This is a short story that Hemingway himself likes very much. Combined with Hemingway's personal experience, it is not difficult to understand.
To tell the truth, although this story is excellent, it is a type I don't like very much. Maybe I am still full of expectations for my feelings and life.