What Is Home? a Comparison of Eveline and Soldier's Home

The home as a place of comfort does not exist for the narrator; companionship with her husband is lost. Her only real conversations occur on paper, as no one else speaks to her of anything other than her condition. She is stripped of her role as a wife, robbed of her role as a mother, and is reduced to an object of her husband's.

Loss of Self in Hemingway's Soldiers Home, Cather's Paul's Case, and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener

War is by no means simple. It is not just a battle between men or nations, as there are wars rooted within ourselves. War to many is unknown and painful, showing the dark side of humanity, and to others it is a sign of glory and conquest. Ernest Hemingway shows his view of the realities of war in “Soldier’s Home” by the experiences pinned onto Harold Krebs, a WWI veteran. Krebs' loss of interest and detachment to post-war society alludes that an unattainable reality to fit back into everyday life was placed on veterans by civilians who had romanticized views of war. This marks the need for elaborated war stories to end in order for veterans to be deservingly accepted back into society.

Hemingway’s usage of theme, setting, persuasive writing, and verbal irony helps to create different moods throughout the story. The theme “talk without communication”

Authors use their point of view of a story to develop the central tone of a story, or to better institute what their purpose may be. Some authors may have the same purpose of different stories, or may have significant differences. Anna Quindlin (author of “Homeless”) and Lauralee Summer (author of “Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars”) both discuss having homes as a top priority when it comes to a childhood, and a feeling of normalcy and security; “Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars” was written to foretell how a home can affect one’s childhood, while “Homeless” was written to tell how “home is where the heart is” (834).

In a fiction story, characters sometimes experience major life conflicts that cause them to disconnect from society. Emily Grierson from “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner and Harold Krebs from “A Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway both experience a mix of life issues that cause them internal conflicts resulting in their disconnection from normal society. These two characters share similar conflicts in their love life, family influences, and past conflicts. Krebs and Emily both share static qualities in their respective stories because neither of them change personality characteristics. Krebs experiences a different type of conflict with his return from war while Emily also has expectations to meet, stemming from her heritage in the town

“This is a story of a soldier who returns from World War I as a different person. The story describes his inability to fit back into the society. Krebs is at home, but he doesn’t feel at home.” He is with the family, but he doesn’t feel he belongs there. I feel Hemingway tried to portray his own life after he came back from the war throughout the character of Harold Krebs. “As much as Krebs believes in the truth, people around him shove him to lie. The story indeed shows the conflict between Krebs value, which has naturally changed after his war experience and society's suspense toward him to conform to its values.” Eventually to keep up his existence Krebs has to choose isolation by detaching himself from social relations, love, and ambition.

Home isn’t always four walls and a ceiling. Home could be anywhere or anyone imaginable, anything or anyone that provides you with strength, security, love, and the passion to go on. Sometimes, it may take a while for somebody to find the home they belong in, but with time and experiences, eventually everyone finds some place they can call their home. In the novel, Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren, the young Long Hoang, later referred to as Matthew Ray Steiner, is living alone through the Vietnamese War, struggling to survive and find a place where he belongs. Even though Long faced challenging and harsh obstacles, he was able to overcome them all and find a place he could really call his ‘home’.

In the selection “A Soldiers Home”, Harold Krebs returns from the war with the inability to love and determined to avoid complications which included lying. Krebs gets back from war and his life is already complicated, when he was welcomed by the people of the society the only possible way they would listen to his stories about the war was if Krebs lied. As the story continued, He was trying to gain attachment from his family and has to lie again. At the breakfast table when his mother tries to draw him back to society she asks him “Don’t you love your mother, Dear boy?” Then Krebs replied quite truthfully “No, I don’t love anybody”. (Hemingway) In this moment, Krebs could not repress his true feelings causing his very own mother to burst into

The tale of “Eveline” is a very interesting story. Written by James Joyce in 1914, “Eveline” was part of a collection of works entitled Dubliners. The story takes place in Dublin, Ireland around the time of World War I. It is a narrative about a woman named Eveline who has a very important decision to make. Eveline has met a sailor named Frank who is from Argentina and is visiting Dublin on vacation. As the story proceeds, Eveline begins to develop feelings towards him and Frank asks her to accompany him back to Argentina. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, Eveline’s mother passed away. Before her mother died, Eveline made a promise that she will care for her younger siblings. Asides from the challenge

"Soldier's Home” Soldier’s Home was written by Ernest Hemingway and was published for a first time in 1925. This short story is about a young soldier Harorl Krebs, who come back to his town in Oklahoma from the world war I after service as a marine. Krebs suffers a painful emotional transformation during the period of the war. Krebs emotional distance and apathy about his future was noticed by his family and friends. Here we are going to analyze why Krebs feels a need to lie when he talks about what happened to him in the war?

In the story “Eveline” by James Joyce. Eveline contemplates her life challenges. She has a life altering decision to make, stay with her abusive Father or leave with her new found love.

Hemingway's world is one in which things do not grow and bear fruit, but explode, break, decompose, or are eaten away. It is saved from total misery by visions of endurance, by what happiness the body can give when it does not hurt, by interludes of love which

In Joyce’s, “Eveline”, most of the story is situated in the mind of the main character, Eveline. Eveline is characterized as passive, easily-influenced, and indecisive. Joyce highlights Eveline’s indecisiveness as she struggles with her immediate predicament; should she leave her abusive father and disobey her duty as a daughter, or pursue a new life with her potential husband Frank, to be free? As she contemplates, readers are taken inside Eveline’s mind to discover factors from her past and present that contribute toward her final decision. While Joyce utilizes rich literary devices including symbolism and dramatic irony, Eveline’s final choice is based on what is repressed in her unconscious mind – her mother’s last words. Eveline’s mother’s last word “Derevuan Seraun” is the deciding factor in which why Eveline chooses stays home.

James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story about a nineteen-year-old Eveline, who contemplates abandoning a life she is accustomed to and moving to a distant land with a man she hardly knows. In one hand she holds the weight of uncertain happiness, in the other, inevitable misery. Eveline needs to make a choice between two contrasting lives; one in which she is a servant to her father, in other, a respected wife. Following her mother’s death, Eveline assumes the role of a parent and inherits all the chores accompanying it. She works hard at home and “the Stores” (Joyce 74), but for all her troubles, Eveline gets little respect in return. Now with one brother dead and other away on business, she is left alone to keep the family together and