This paper aims to examine the tragic in Hemingway’s short story, “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” by using the tragic factors in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry. In the era of Ancient Greece, Aristotle explained the tragic factors that were needed to play ancient Greek tragedy. In Hemingway’s “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber”, we can find out the tragic factors which are depicted in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry. There are essential Aristotelian tragic factors in “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber”. First, in terms of tragedy, this short story is consisted of three steps, ‘A beginning’, ‘A middle’ and ‘An end’, as described in On the Art of Poetry. Second, the factor that ‘A Peripety’ and ‘A Discovery’ are repeated in “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” can be considered for the important part of the tragedy. Last, in the composition of tragedy, Hemingway utilizes the relation of family. The accident within the family could maximize the effects of tragedy, as Aristotle emphasized that Sophocles’s The King Oedipus was the excellent one. As a result, this study shows that Hemingway’s “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” reveals its tragic factors, including and showing the tragic theories in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry.