The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber bull herself. If this is the case, she wins back her power, but ironically, she destroys the thing she is trying to control. The bullet accomplishes exactly what she was trying to avoid. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" has been acclaimed as one of Hemingway's most successful artistic achievements. This is largely due to the ambiguous complexity of its characters and their motivations, and the debate this ambiguity has generated. In the estimation of critic Kenneth G. Johnston, "the prevailing critical view is that she deliberately—or at best, 'accidentally on purpose'—murdered him", but there are many, including Johnston
All Happy Families Are Alike Leo Tolstoy: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The episode was watched by 4.93 million viewers. This was an increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 4.58 million viewers. This made "Gotham" the most watched program of the day in FOX, beating "The Following". "All Happy Families Are Alike" received mixed reviews from critics but acclaim from fans. The episode received a "rotten" rating of 59% with an average score of 7.3 out of 10 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating: "'All Happy