Kill-a-man-jaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway is a story about a married couple in the African Savanna who are stranded because there truck broke-down and to add insult to injury the husband is suffering from gangrene in the leg. Two weeks prior to the beginning of the story we find out that the husband got scratched from a thorn on the leg and he neglects putting iodine on the scratch because he didn't think that it would be a big deal since it was such a minor injury. Aside from the life he once led, which involved marrying women just for money and lying to his current wife about whether he loves her or not, he is obviously influenced by the way he lived his life and his carelessness for taking better care of a wound in a survival situation. I think the fact that he was living a lie shows why he failed to give proper attention to something that seemed so trivial. Near the end of the story he basically gives up and starts to drink whiskey to dull the pain. I don't blame him to be honest, but I think it was easier to give-up since he didn't have much to live for in his opinion.