Soldiers Home By Ernest Hemingway Analysis

In “Soldier’s Home” the story revolves around the fact that going to war changed Harold Krebs. When he left going overseas he was a young

There have been many diagnoses of PTSD in American soldiers. As Mark Thomas said in a magazine article, “The National Academy of Sciences have report estimated that up to 20% of 2.6 million US men and women who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq may have it (PTSD)”(Thomas). This quote expresses that nearly 520,000 US families have been affected by this disorder. It also shows that PTSD has become a large enough issue that more and more people and

Hemingway uses the setting as a big part in establishing the theme. The story is set in Oklahoma after Harold comes back from the war. The story states that, “By the time Krebs returned to his hometown in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late.” (Hemingway 653). This setting explains that all the soldiers came home a year before Krebs.

This is an essay on the short story “Soldier’s Home” by Hemingway. Will the life of a soldier ever be the same after returning from war? Many generations of young adults have gone from their homes with tranquil settings to experience war and come home to a different world. Many have witnessed the devastations and atrocities that occur with war. Harold Krebs, a young man from a small town with a loving family is no different from those before him and those to follow. The anguish of what war is however cannot dispel the thoughts and memories of what many young men come home to face in the real world. Many have trouble coping in the new world known as home.

As a young man coming back from the war, Krebs expected things to be the same when he got home and they were, except one. Sure the town looked older and all the girls had matured into beautiful women, Krebs had never expected that he would be the one to change. The horrific experiences of the first World War had alienated and removed those he had cared about, including his family, who stood naïve to the realities and consequences only those who live it first hand would comprehend.

As an American Soldier myself, this book gave me great appreciation for the military lifestyle in this generation. This book consisted of six descriptive chapters; the first 2 chapters consisted of what Corporal George Browne went through what I believe as the typical soldier experience through the initial process and becoming an American soldier. After embarking the Initial Military training, Browne was then shipped off two days later to France. His voyage across the seas, to problems with some of the engineers and their equipment were just few of the problems they faced due to the lack of technology. During the takeoff of World War I,

Wars and armed conflicts have a great impact on both the physical and mental health of soldiers. Armed conflicts have maimed thousands of soldiers and claimed the lives of many. Surviving soldiers have had to live a life of distress and mental torture resulting from post traumatic stress they suffer on their return to their country. Ernest Hemingway through fictional characters has shared the struggles of attempting to cope and re-adjust to life after fighting in a battle. His post-war civilian experience, his coping ability and life after war shows that it is not always easy for a soldier to cope with the civilian life after war. The society is less concerned with what happens to the surviving soldiers and much attention is drawn to the

Ernest Hemingway’s story “Soldier’s Home” demonstrates how the soldiers of today may feel when they get back home from war. Even though this story was written in 1925 a lot of today’s soldiers can probably relate to this story. When Krebs came home it seems as though he felt unappreciated and that people didn’t care. In the story Krebs felt as though he had to make up stories to get the attention of other. Much like the soldiers today, he wanted and needed someone to just listen. It seems as though he felt lost when he came back to the United States (Baerdemaeker 55).

This essay discusses Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its effect on combat soldiers involved in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. The goal of this paper is to inform others about what the soldiers deal with during and after combat and the different treatments available for them to cope with and hopefully overcome this disorder.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) “Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex, often chronic and debilitating mental disorder that develops in response to catastrophic life evens such as combat, sexual assault, natural disasters, and other extreme stressors.” (Weathers, Keane, and Foa, 2008). The continued combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in serious mental health problems for U.S. troops. These problems include “major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and PTSD.” (Vieweg et al., 2006). PTSD affects an estimated one

Is there a pattern for life? Maybe not, but in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home”, the main character Harold Krebs finds that he needs to live his life through a series of patterns. In this story, the series of patterns associated to Krebs results in an explanation of his character’s desire for an uncomplicated life. The series of patterns can be found through Krebs’s involvement in college, the Marines, and even in his personal relationships.

When reading a story, the reader doesn’t necessarily think about all of the elements that can be incorporated to make the story flow proficiently, unless of course the reader is a literature professor or literary structure nut. Every basic story consists of three things: a rising action, a climax, and a falling action. Some authors for instance, Ernest Hemingway or Susan Minot come right out and simply give the reader these elements; others like, John Updike or Jamaica Kincaid make the reader look deeper into the text to find them. The same can be said for the thematic idea. The thematic idea is the big concept of an author’s story: betrayal, courage, justice, honor, family, love, duty, loyalty and many more. In the end, once the reader has figured it out, the thematic idea explains why characters act as they do. Depending on the story and how it’s told, there can be numerous thematic ideas or there can be just one that is clearly portrayed. Ernest Hemingway is an author that uses thematic idea to his advantage and is able to use the main character to describe his past experiences. In Ernest Hemingway’s, Soldier’s Home I found there to be one thematic idea that stuck out more than any other; trauma and the difficulties that come along with it.

Krebs, the main character, returns home from the great war struggling to conform to societies expectations. He has lost all feelings he once had for people as the impact of war zones and death took a toll on his mental state. His return is darkened the minute he steps foot in his home town because his homecoming was later than his fellow brothers causing him to go unnoticed by the town. Krebs is struggling to “fit in” and Hemingway portrays him as a soldier of the lost generation attempting to peacefully return to society and live a normal life. As the story progresses and Krebs loses his interest in attempting to get a girlfriend because of the “consequences.” Even when his mother makes an effort to talk to him in hopes of relieving his post war trauma she is shut down. “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy” (125)? He quickly replies, “No…I don’t love anybody” (125). Krebs has no interest in women and even went to the extent to telling his own mother he does not love her. Yes, post-war trauma can be very serious and life altering, but saying you do not love your own mother when she has been trying to help you is absurd. Hemingway clearly has something against women and as seen in Krebs’s actions women are meaningless characters that cause disturbance to men. Hemingway feels as though women do not contribute to society, but rather serve as outsiders disturbing men. He instantly gets readers pondering

Etini Samuel Udoko ENG 102 – 007 Hatley September 30, 2017. “Soldier’s Home” The short story “Soldier’s Home” by Earnest Hemingway is an ironic title to a story about a soldier who finds himself back home. Initially reading the title, one would be led to believe its possessive, where it’s a veterans’ retirement home where he’s going to live out his life. It can also be looked at as a contraction, where it is ‘the solder is home’.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, journalist and short story writer. In 1918 he was recruited by the Red Cross to assist as an ambulance driver in Italy. While carrying