In the story “Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway’s is a story about a man named Harold Krebs who went to war in 1917 from a Methodist college in Kansas. He returns from the war in 1919. The title of this story A Soldiers home is a great description of the story the reason being its symbolize the meaning of the story it describes how retired soldiers from the military live in the same town and tells there war experience In "A Soldier's Home", the main character is Krebs. He is a soldier that has returned home from the World War I. He is a different person now that he has returned from the war. He is having a hard time adjusting back to the life of a civilian. When people ask him about the war, he makes up a lie about it so that he does not
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The reason the conflict occurs between the townspeople and Kerbs is that of Kerbs dishonesty.the Dishonesty comes from kerbs retelling war stories he really doesn't like talking about them so therefore he tries to tell lies about what happened. Krebs finds himself telling these lies because dishonesty is the path of least resistance, even though it causes a “nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration.When it comes to dating, he thinks that the women are pretty in his town, but he has no desire of pursuing anything with them. He said that he liked the French and German girls, because "there was not all this talking. You couldn't talk much and you did not need to talk. It was simple and you were friends". ”He is home, but it is no soldier’s home to which he has returned. This story It is not told chronologically because he tries to explain his reactions and experience in the war so it goes back in time. I do believe that it is resolved in the end because he stops talking about his stories of the war.I do not identify with any of the characters because I have not been to the war and I could not relate to what he is referencing to when he talks about it. They seem kinda unreal to me because the way they act to him as he is trying to talk about. He does change he does not act the same as before he went to
The reason the conflict occurs between the townspeople and Kerbs is that of Kerbs dishonesty.the Dishonesty comes from kerbs retelling war stories he really doesn't like talking about them so therefore he tries to tell lies about what happened. Krebs finds himself telling these lies because dishonesty is the path of least resistance, even though it causes a “nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration.When it comes to dating, he thinks that the women are pretty in his town, but he has no desire of pursuing anything with them. He said that he liked the French and German girls, because "there was not all this talking. You couldn't talk much and you did not need to talk. It was simple and you were friends". ”He is home, but it is no soldier’s home to which he has returned. This story It is not told chronologically because he tries to explain his reactions and experience in the war so it goes back in time. I do believe that it is resolved in the end because he stops talking about his stories of the war.I do not identify with any of the characters because I have not been to the war and I could not relate to what he is referencing to when he talks about it. They seem kinda unreal to me because the way they act to him as he is trying to talk about. He does change he does not act the same as before he went to