Krebs Values

Krebs “felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities.” Krebs own family lacks support for his yearning to talk to someone about what he has done and gone through. “She [Krebs’ mother] often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered. His father was non-committal.” It is obvious why Krebs decided to sleep all day and lock himself in his room, his town and his family have locked him in there with nothing but his thoughts. Krebs cannot leave the room because he is unable to let out all that he carries from the war.

In Soldier's Home, Ernest Hemingway paints a vivid picture of Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the issues he confronts while trying to shift his way back towards the ordinary life he once lived. After his battling over seas took place, it took Krebs over a year to finally leave Europe and make his way back home to his family in Oklahoma. After finally finding the drive to come home, Krebs found that it was difficult to express his feelings towards all he had seen during his tour of duty, which must be attributed to the fact that he was in the heart of some of the bloodiest and most crucial battles mankind has ever seen. Therefore, Krebs difficulty in acknowledging his past is because he was indeed a “good soldier” (133), whose

Soldier’s Home is a story about the experiences of a soldier returning from war. The narrative starts with a description of an image or photograph of Harold Krebs. Krebs is the main character of this story. He was a young man who was attending the Methodist College in Kansas before he had to enlist in the Marines to find in the war (Hemingway 111-116). The opening picture is an increasingly significant source of contrast between the young man who went to war and the one who comes back who has become silent and alienated after coming home. Krebs comes back in 1919 even though the war ended in 1918. His return is not marked by celebrations and parades that were often given to the young soldiers who had managed to come home early. Rather, Krebs finds out that the people are not overly excited about his news of the war unless he lies and exaggerates about his role during the war (Hemingway 111-116).

The experience of war can be very damaging both physically and mentally for any person. The graphic images, deaths, and moral disintegration can cause anyone to fall into blatant misery. In the short story, “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway writes about a young soldier coming home from WWI and the difficulties that he has trying to fit back into the old world that he once knew. Hemingway does not provide readers the first hand accounts of Krebs’s war experiences. Instead, he shows how the memories of war significantly shape Krebs’s life at home. For example, ways that the war massively effected Krebs’s well being throughout the present day includes: Krebs’s mental state, his view on relationships with women, and him feeling as though

To begin with, since the beginning of the short story the reader is able to note that Krebs is a soldier who is severely impacted by the war. Short sentences allow Hemingway to demonstrate the isolation that Krebs feels once he returns home. This use of abrupt sentence structure not only shows Krebs detachment, but it also signals to the reader that fighting in the war has emotionally deteriorated Krebs. To clarify the reason for Krebs behavior, the narrator mentions, “By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late” (Bedford 116). This not only gives background information on Krebs but it reveals to the reader that Krebs did not receive the welcome he expects. He returns home with the hopes of feeling like he belongs, but he is incapable of establishing connections or even feeling

Harold Krebs is a young fellow who has as of late come back from his administration with the U.S. Marines amid World War. His house is in a residential area in Oklahoma. The story opens with the depiction of two photos: in the main, Krebs is envisioned with his society siblings. In the second photo, he is envisioned with another trooper and some German young ladies promptly after the war in Europe. He is imagined here as being too enormous for his uniform, recommending that he doesn't fit serenely into either his uniform or his life. Presently, with his arrival to Oklahoma, he seems to belong nowhere.

A lot of Hemingway’s writings were based off things he experienced in real life. It is evident A Soldiers Home withheld deeper meaning and portrayed some of Hemingway’s feelings. Within the short story, Krebs has no interest in trying to heal from the mental pains of war. His parents even offer to him the family car to go out and meet people and get a job.Viewing Hemingway’s life, times can be found, postwar where he simply drank to get drunk. This was in an effort to isolate himself, and to get away from his feeling of “nothingness.” Krebs, similarly isolated himself in the story. An example being him turning down the offer of driving the family car.Hemingway was trying to avoid the war and his life after war, just as Krebs was avoiding events

Hemingway uses diction in various parts of the story to show thoughts, and feelings of the soldier Harold Krebs, emotion towards society when coming back from war. Krebs shows a hint of being detached from reality of his hometown when he comes back and no one is there to greet him with open arms as a hero. He begins to tell lies about the war to grow connections with individuals in hope of a sense of belonging.

           Hemingway illustrates the contrast of Krebs’ two lives, “There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar…. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs

One big factor in Hemingway’s works is the loss of innocences in a time of war. Not just with soldiers but with innocent bystanders in a time of war. Henry a innocent young man sets up the disillusionment. He

Hemingway reveals the short story through a narrator’s voice. The narrator is not necessarily a bystander, as he recognizes, for the most part, that the war stripped the soul from Krebs. It is made clear that Hemingway understands more than what can be physically observed about Krebs, as his feelings are thoroughly detailed throughout.

He would sometimes talk to other soldiers and Krebs would "fall into the easy pose of the old soldier among other soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. In this way he lost everything." (Hemingway 116)The war affected him in such a way that it seemed like he was left with little or no emotions. The Marines had taught Krebs that no man needs a woman. They taught him that women involve too much

The male characters of the novel all struggle with what it meant to be a man living in a post-world war world in which up until then had been taught that men were warrior-like creatures who should take pride in the defending one’s homeland. Fighting was romanticized as being the act of courageous, heroic, and virile men. The reality of The Great War presented a much different reality. One of close quarter combat, fighting in trenches, long-range bombardment, and the use of chemical warfare. All of this served to shatter the perception of the soldier that had long been idealized by Americans. The main characters, whom like Hemingway were all ex-

In this way, he lost everything. (Hemingway “Soldier’s Home” 112)” Hemmingway tells us the feeling Krebs gets when he has to lie. Krebs is scared to get caught in his lies or dig himself deeper into his lies about him at war. We know Krebs uses stories he has heard from other soldiers. We know this because Hemingway writes “His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers. (Hemingway “Soldier’s Home” 112)”

In “Soldier’s Home,” Hemingway shares the life of Krebs, a young soldier, who has trouble adjusting to life after the war. Due to everyone’s need to see the war in a certain light, he struggles to reveal to others his experiences. This leads him into a depression while his fellow war mates carry on with their lives. Hemingway states, “Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told” (Hemingway, 365). Due to the absence of an outlet, Krebs finds it hard to really go back to the