Title
Shooting Big Game with Orwell and Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Briefly compares the big game hunt in Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant” to “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” noting their similar caustic style, colonial themes, and emphasis on animal suffering.
Published in
Notes on Contemporary Literature
Volume
44
Issue
2
Date
2014
Pages
2-4
COinS
Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey. “Shooting Big Game with Orwell and Hemingway.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 44, no. 2 (Mar. 2014): 2-4.