Hemingway's Death, I Wish I Had Done That

Hemingway gets accused, and I believe rightly so, of a lot of misogyny in his writing. A lot of women in his stories and his novels have the same sort of role that Helen has in the story,. which is they are distractions from the true calling of being a man. In Hemingway's world, that would mean going on safari and hunting big game.