The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber: Accident or Murder?

       At the end of The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway, Francis Macomber is shot by his wife Margot during a hunt for buffalo. What was going through her head at the moment was not explicitly stated, leaving the question of whether she was trying to kill the buffalo or her husband. I believe that her shooting Macomber was not an accident.
       Margaret Macomber needed to stay with Francis, she didn't respect him but she needed financially.'Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.' Macomber knew that she stayed with him for his money when he his thinking 'but she was not a great enough beauty any more at home to be able to leave him and better herself and she knew it and he knew it. She had missed the chance to leave him and he knew it.' Macomber already knows that he is rich and can go and find another wife, but she wont be able to live the lifestyle she does now on her own.
       When he confronts her about the affair she had with Wilson, it is implied that this is not the first time she has stepped out of the marriage.' "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be." "Well, there is now," she said sweetly.' She disregards him when he is trying to talk about it, which shows she doesn't think much of him.  He tells her "You think that I'll take anything.", and she replies with "I know you will,sweet." Margot expects for him to let her do whatever she wants so it scares her when he finally gets confidence.
       When he kills the buffalo and becomes more confident, and she sees a change in him it frightens her because she doesn't want him to gain enough confidence to leave her.Now that he is starting to become successful at shooting the animals, she starts to belittle hunting the animals when before she had no problem with it. Before she kills him she talks to him ' "You've gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly," his wife said contemptuously, but her contempt was not secure. She was very afraid of something.' About two pages later she shot him. She killed him because she could tell he was going to leave her,and if he did she would lose everything, if she killed him she would only lose her husband because she would get to keep all the money.