The story is at the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. I see that Harry reflects on his choices that he has made. Well I have to say in my mind that the protagonist is Harry. Harry is a writer, loves big game hunting, and has flashbacks while his leg is rotting off from gangrene. “The marvelous thing is that it’s painless” (2243). This tells us that Harry is not afraid of death. “Can’t you let a man die as comfortable as he can without calling him names” (2244). While falling in and out of sleep he dreams of when he was in the war. Every time he wakes up he yells at his wife. She is the woman who went on the hunting trip with him. He regrets her because she is rich and a bitch “You bitch, he said. You rich bitch” (2247). After his second flashback he flashed to the time he went to Paris and he combines it with the past and the present. Well I told you a little about Harry. I think another person is his wife Helen. She tries to keep him comfortable. She feels like he is giving up way to soon when he ask for a drink “You shouldn’t she said. That’s what I mean by giving up” (2244). She tells him and begs him not to drink. The last person I think would have to be Compton. He is the one who have come to fly them out in Puss Moth which is a small two seat plane. “It’s the Puss Moth you know. I won’t be able to take the Memsahib. There only room for one” (2258). Death could have been one of the major people because it has a lot of comparisons in the poem. The one that sticks out is where death is compared to a heart beating. “But she did not hear him for the beating of her heart” (2259). There was also death symbolical to the mountain and the hyena. I did like this story but man you really had to look deep into the poem to see the whole poem.