The tiger represents an attempt at both purity and immortality. When Hemingway wrote this story, he was very concerned with his own lack of discipline and ability to write something honest and therefore, pure. Harry, who realizes he is dying of gangrene on the plains of Africa, represents an author who has "sold out" because he never took the time to write about things that really matter to him.
"His perceived failures eat away at him like the gangrene that eats his leg. At one point he explicitly equates them: ‘"Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.'"
He has the pilot fly past the peak of Mr. Kilimanjaro because He
‘‘knew that there was where he was going.’’
Harry is like the tiger. Harry tried for some kind of immortality through his writing. However, like the tiger he fails to make it to the top.
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