Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Reading and Analytical Writing, language: English, abstract: The two short stories "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway, were both published in 1936, and deal with the confrontation of death and male changes provoked by extreme situations. In the following these two stories are being compared and analysed, as to the question whether they are of fundamental differences or basically one story told in two ways.