A Soldiers Home Analysis

While their exterior appears tough and apathetic, their interior has emotion and can love another. It changes the work as a whole, as Henry's denial to love and other non-masculine subjects are no longer trust-worthy. Henry's denials are just to be seen as cover-ups for his own sake. Hemingway exhibits the change of a man through his thoughts, but also proves the pressures on that man

It is truly a gripping story, told in a lean hard athletic narrative. Mr. Hemingway shows uncanny skill at implementing his own masculine beliefs and values into a theme of immense emotion”(essortment2). Seeing through the masculinity in the story Justin Day writes: “Mr. Hemingway has such a hold on his values that he makes an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative of it, when on the surface, it seems as if it is going to be one of his infamous “Man Stories”(day3). Speaking of “A Farewell to Arms” which is a highly reviewed Hemingway story, Arthur Waldhorn writes that: “The chief result is of enamel luster imparted to the story as a whole, not precisely and iridescence, but a white light, rather, that pales and flashes, but never warms. Which is Hemingway’s way of thinking, it is apparent that he has soft spots in his work and in his thoughts, but he refuses to let them show”(Waldhorn2). Reviewing the same story Jeff Marx states that “a Victorian telling the story of Henry and Catherine would have waxed sentimental; he would have sought the tears of his reader. And he would surely himself shed tears as he wrote”(jackson73). Many believe that Hemingway wrote about fictional characters that had the life that Ernest Hemingway himself tried to lead. Brian Dennis speaking of the story “To Have and Have Not” states: “Henry was a big bruiser of a man, hard as

Throughout the short story “Soldier's Home”, Hemingway’s use of short syntax and repetitive diction conveys how when a soldier returns from war they often feel detached from the people and things around them. Krebs has returned from World War one, but later than everyone else, so they don’t seem to care for his stories, even when he lies. Before the war, Krebs wanted to drive the family car, but he was never allowed to. Now that he has returned from war, “it was still the same car” from when he left (Hemingway). Using short sentences, Hemingway demonstrates how after witnessing the intensity of war, the issues that used to be a big deal to Krebs are no longer of importance and he feels detached from the car. While walking through the town,

Even his mother, despite her wanting him to talk about the war by asking questions, never really pays attention. As a result he resorts to lying about his experience, forcing Krebs to isolate himself and oppose discussing what he had needed to discuss and get off his chest.

The setting of the story helps us understand the character of Harold Krebs. The soldier’s home could be the place where soldiers would retire after the war. It was the home for those soldiers who had completed their mission at the war but were homeless or had no family during the First World War and the Second World War. Hemingway also creates a temporal setting for the readers by showing that Krebs returns home two years after fellow veterans had returned (Benson). The setting, therefore, helps the readers to understand the main character

After all those things done from the mother and father of Krebs, he eventually did not changed because the core logic behind the ideology of his life was to not to make the life full of complex issues while keep it simple while telling lie to his mother in the end about his professional aims. The feature of the Krebs’s was also associated with such alienations came from the conventional institutions as per the soldier’s home after the World War 1 from the generation that would lost, for example, Nick Adams or from point of view of the Great Gatsby.

He needed to be heard by the others in his town, but “His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities” (Hemingway 133) that they did not want to listen to Krebs stories. The community did not care what Krebs was thinking in his mind, or how he was feeling. Krebs had no choice but to tell small lies about the war because the community could not capture what actually happened during the war. Krebs stories would have too much information that the people were unprepared to listen or know about. Perhaps he did not want to discuss the war with others because he felt guilty of all the massacres he has witness in the

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In the story, “Soldier’s Home” it is told from the third person narrator point of view. Hemingway, having been a former journalist is able to show how distant Krebs is because of being the type of journalist who is detached just like Krebs was detached by his experience in World War I. As Hemingway writes he shows how Krebs holds his emotions in that he knows his mother will not understand. When Krebs calls his mom “Mummy” he is trying to comfort her by acting like a child. At the end Krebs makes a decision to leave and go to Kansas City because he feels he may not ever reconnect with his family.

Krebs joins the war when he was a young boy. As a result of the war, he came back from the war, not as a boy but now as a man. The war may not have affected him physically, but it sure had a significant impact on the personal attributes of the young man. He struggles to find himself a place in the society which is a feat that he later realizes is extremely hard (Imamura, 102). The experiences in the military served to change his perspective of life as extraordinarily simple. The situation is extremely distressing to the extent that he cannot fit inside his own family.

He wanted to live along without consequences`` (Hemingway252). He thinks living alone is more peaceful and he cannot tolerate the family relationship’s challenges and make them satisfy. He actually suffers of posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) that causes difficulty for transitioning to the normal life as experts mention that ``empirical research findings clearly indicate that veterans’ PTSD following exposure to combat violence affects veterans’ familial relationships and the psychological adjustment of family members`` (Galovski and Lyons 2004). Therefore, soldiers that engage with violence and observe the harshness in the war apparently hurt physically, mentally and emotionally. Their vulnerability makes them unable to adjust with the normal life and in relating with their family members. For that reason, Harold Krebs also feels these challenges and troubles in his family. Therefore his disturb emotions and mental health affect his connection and communication with his family as he makes his mother to cry when she asks him a question that `` don’t you love your mother dear boy? No Krebs said``. ``I do not love anybody`` (Hemingway256). He feels so depress emotionally that cannot love anybody even his mother. In fact in that historical moment (after World War I), most of the soldiers experience the same emotional distress that Krebs experiences as

In my analysis of the story, “Soldiers Home” by Ernest Hemingway, I concluded that the story involved two characters. Harold Krebs was the main character of the story and many details of his life was provided so the reader could have a visual concept of what the author was trying to portray. Kreb’s mother was the other character of the story and the author presented her side with many spoken parts. The inclusion of Kreb’s mother provided a nurturing aspect in the story and presented a conflict with the struggles that Harold would endure when he returned home. Hemingway would use ideas in the story so that way the reader could imagine themselves as the characters and understand what they are feeling throughout each word. Harold struggled with lies and facing his insecurities, but his mother would eventually help him to overcome these problems. would eventually find a

     Hemingway’s World War I experience varies only slightly from that of Frederick Henry. One night while stationed in Fossalta, Hemingway rode his bicycle, while dodging the Austrian’s crossfire, to bring chocolate and cigarettes to his friends in a nearby trench. Soon after he arrived at the trench, the Austrian’s launched a five-gallon canister filled with scrap metal. Many of the Italians in the trench were badly injured. While trying to rescue one of the victims, a machine gun shot tore through Hemingway’s leg. He fell, but he managed to get back up, and hobble with the other man to safety. The two were taken to a shed filled with dying or already dead people. About two hours later Hemingway was, like Frederick Henry, transported to an emergency medical post in Milan for his leg wound. It was there that Hemingway fell in love with an American nurse from Washington, D.C. Her name was Sister Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky. She grew fond of young Hemingway, but was discouraged that she was thirty years old and he was only twenty. Nothing ever really became of their mutual attraction. Perhaps Hemingway tried to relive and recreate his love through Catherine and Frederick.

The constant attachment between the two lovers demonstrates a love that is like a “beacon of light- allowing the characters to “see” meaning in their experiences and “look forward” to a viable future” (Armstrong, 80). Both parties in the relationship showed that they preferred each other’s company more than anything else. In fact, nearly every minute of free time they had was spent in the arms of one another. Henry said he, “found it more pleasurable than going every evening to the house for officers where the girls climbed all over you and put your cap on backwards as a sign of affection…” (Hemingway 30) Throughout the novel it it became apparent that Henry’s thought were always on Miss. Barkley in even the most distressing and dismal times. An example of this, was when Henry was contemplating the dangers of war and in order to escape reality, Henry immediately thought about Catherine Barkley as he

The climax of the story occurs when Krebs talks to his mother, and he definitely do not want this conversation, mostly about a job and religion. He feels uncomfortable and embarrassed. Mrs. Krebs expects her son to go to work, get married and settle down, repre-senting the typical Midwestern mentality. She mostly wants her son to fit in society and treats him as though nothing has happened; she seems to be unable to understand her son's post-war trauma and depression. The whole situation pushes Krebs to tell another lies. He was asked if he loved his mother, and the honest response was “I don't love anybody” (Hemingway 1993: 145). His mother blackmails her son. It is clear that Krebs, again, expe-riences the feeling of nausea, believing that a comforting lie is the only way to make his mother stop crying. Forced to kneel down and pray, he is unable to do it but he